US Patent Issued to Bridgestone Europe NV/SA on June 10 for "Method and system for applying a sealing agent to the surface of an internal cavity of a pneumatic tire" (Italian Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 18 -- United States Patent no. 12,325,205, issued on June 10, 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).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system for applying a sealing agent to the surface of an internal cavity of a pneumatic tire provided with an applicator device for supplying a strip of sealing agent that is applied to the surface and an opto-electronic device that is integral to the nozzle of the applicator device and that is provided with at least one sensor element that is able to acquire images of the su...