US Patent Issued to Bridgestone Americas Tire Operations on April 29 for "Methods for producing polymer-containing coatings upon cured inner liners, methods for producing tires containing such inner liners, and tires containing such inner liners" (Ohio, Indiana Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,285,923, issued on April 29, was assigned to Bridgestone Americas Tire Operations LLC (Nashville, Tenn.).

"Methods for producing polymer-containing coatings upon cured inner liners, methods for producing tires containing such inner liners, and tires containing such inner liners" was invented by Kung-Ching Liao (Copley, Ohio), Jared J. Griebel (Orange Village, Ohio), Brian S. Alexander (Westfield, Ind.), Jiansheng Tang (Carmel, Ind.), Bradley S. Plotner (Canton, Ohio) and Ross W. Widenor (Munroe Falls, Ohio).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Methods for producing a polymer-containing coating upon a cured tire inner liner using a coating compos...