US Patent Issued to THE GOODYEAR TIRE & RUBBER on July 14 for "Rubber composition and tire" (Luxembourger, German Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 14 -- United States Patent no. 12,679,141, issued on July 14, was assigned to THE GOODYEAR TIRE & RUBBER COMPANY (Akron, Ohio).

"Rubber composition and tire" was invented by Michael Hans (Trier, Germany), Eric Engeldinger (Redange-sur-Attert, Luxembourg) and Christian Jean-Marie Kaes (Schrondweiler, Luxembourg).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present invention is directed to a rubber composition comprising 10 phr to 100 phr of at least one partially saturated elastomer comprising repeat units, wherein at most 15% of all repeat units of the elastomer comprise a double bond; 0 phr to 90 phr of at least one diene based elastomer; 40 phr to 200 phr of at least one filler; ...