US Patent Issued to American Tire Engineering on May 27 for "Tire tread with multiple circumferential asymmetries" (Florida Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,311,702, issued on May 27, was assigned to American Tire Engineering Inc. (Minnetonka, Minn.).

"Tire tread with multiple circumferential asymmetries" was invented by Mark H. Mineur (Fernandina Beach, Fla.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Tire-tread constructions may incorporate multiple circumferential asymmetries. Prime-number values are used for (a) the number of pitches (where a pitch is an individual pattern that is repeated around the circumference of the tire tread); (b) the number of segments of the mold with which the overall tire tread is formed; (c) the number of variations in the lengths of pitches; or (d) the number of variatio...