US Patent Issued to Bridgestone Europe NV/SA on July 8 for "Method and system for applying a sealing agent to the surface of an internal cavity of a pneumatic tire" (Italian Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,350,898, issued on July 8, was assigned to Bridgestone Europe NV/SA (Zaventem, Belgium).

"Method and system for applying a sealing agent to the surface of an internal cavity of a pneumatic tire" was invented by Roberto Pontone (Rome) and Alfonso Di Egidio (Rome).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for applying a sealing agent to a surface of an internal cavity of a pneumatic tire includes inserting an optoelectronic device into the internal cavity and rotating the tire at least 360 degrees about a first axis to acquire captured images and perform a three-dimensional surface scan of various portions of the surface that are uniformly dis...