US Patent Issued to THE GOODYEAR TIRE & RUBBER on Aug. 4 for "Rubber composition for a winter tire and a winter tire" (Luxembourger Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,698,380, issued on Aug. 4, was assigned to THE GOODYEAR TIRE & RUBBER COMPANY (Akron, Ohio).

"Rubber composition for a winter tire and a winter tire" was invented by Luisa Fernanda Munoz Mejia (Troine, Luxembourg), Claude Charles Jacoby (Wasserbillig, Luxembourg), Karmena Izabela Anyfantaki (Helmsange, Luxembourg), Evangelia Konstantaki (Bissen, Luxembourg) and Veronique Marie-Josee Herbeuval (Waltzing, Luxembourg).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present invention is directed to a rubber composition comprising 35 phr to 60 phr of a first polybutadiene rubber having a glass transition temperature within a range of -80deg C. to -105deg C....