ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,384,205, issued on Aug. 12, was assigned to Continental Reifen Deutschland GmbH (Hannover, Germany).
"Pneumatic tyre for a vehicle" was invented by Ulrich Behr (Hannover, Germany) and Zi-Jie Soo (Shah Alam, Malaysia).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The invention relates to a pneumatic vehicle tyre having a tread with at least one, in particular straight, circumferential groove (1) which is formed at profile depth (T1), is delimited by groove flanks (5, 6) and a groove base (4) of U-shaped cross section, and has a width (B1) which is ascertained at the tread periphery in the axial direction, wherein a number of projections (7), which are ar...