ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 11 -- United States Patent no. 12,466,940, issued on Nov. 11, was assigned to Apollo Tyres Global R&D B.V. (Enschede, Netherlands).

"Rubber composition for tyres with low rolling resistance and good winter properties" was invented by Anup Mondal (Enschede, Netherlands), Tharik Mohamed (Enschede, Netherlands) and Louis Reuvekamp (Enschede, Netherlands).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present invention relates to a cross-linkable rubber composition, a cross-linked rubber composition obtained by cross-linking such a rubber composition, a method of preparing a tyre and a tyre. In a cross-linkable rubber composition the cross-linkable rubber composition comprises, per hundr...