US Patent Issued to The Goodyear Tire & Rubber on March 31 for "Air barrier film tubing to replace inner-liner (butyl)" (Ohio Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 31 -- United States Patent no. 12,589,566, issued on March 31, was assigned to The Goodyear Tire & Rubber Co. (Akron, Ohio).

"Air barrier film tubing to replace inner-liner (butyl)" was invented by Robin Lamgaday (Copley, Ohio), Adam Mark Baldan (Akron, Ohio), Benjamin Isaiah Garn (Norton, Ohio), Carl Trevor Ross Pulford (Akron, Ohio), Dinesh Chandra (Akron, Ohio) and Cheng-Hsiung Lin (Hudson, Ohio).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "In one aspect, the invention is directed to a method of providing an air barrier layer to a tire comprising at least the following steps: providing a tire comprising a tire cavity and an inner surface facing the tire cavity, providing a tubular ...