US Patent Issued to VMI HOLLAND on March 31 for "Tire building machine and method for inspecting a tire component produced in said tire building machine" (Dutch Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 31 -- United States Patent no. 12,589,565, issued on March 31, was assigned to VMI HOLLAND B.V. (Epe, Netherlands).

"Tire building machine and method for inspecting a tire component produced in said tire building machine" was invented by Willem Marinus Van Beek (Epe, Netherlands).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A tire building machine for producing tire components and a method for inspecting tire components produced in a tire building machine are provided. The tire building machine includes a machine housing that defines a production area, one or more handling machines in said production area and an inspection station that defines an inspection area for inspection by a hu...