ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 20 -- United States Patent no. 12,391,072, issued on Aug. 19, was assigned to Continental Reifen Deutschland GmbH (Hannover, Germany).
"Pneumatic tire for a vehicle" was invented by Wilke Eikermann (Hannover, Germany), Florian Kristen (Burgwedel, Germany), Frank Steinluke (Wunstorf, Germany) and Alexander Wust (Seelze, Germany).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A pneumatic tire for a vehicle with a tread having at least one profile rib, which is delimited on at least one side thereof by a circumferential groove. The circumferential groove has, when viewed in cross section, a portion running in the radial direction and having a width of up to 3.0 mm and, adjoining it, a radia...