US Patent Issued to The Goodyear Tire & Rubber on Sept. 22 for "Tire reinforced by metal cords" (Luxembourger, American Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,741,487, issued on Sept. 22, was assigned to The Goodyear Tire & Rubber Co. (Akron, Ohio).

"Tire reinforced by metal cords" was invented by Robert Edward Lionetti (Colmar-Berg, Luxembourg), Arun Prasath Manogaran (Colmar-Berg, Luxembourg) and Matthew Hecht (Akron, Ohio).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "In a first aspect, the present invention is directed to a tire comprising a rubber component reinforced by one or more metal cords, wherein at least one metal cord of the one or more metal cords comprises mega tensile metal filaments including N essentially parallel core filaments, and M sheath filaments wound around the core filaments, with...