ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,397,589, issued on Aug. 26, was assigned to Continental Reifen Deutschland GmbH (Hannover, Germany).
"Pneumatic vehicle tire" was invented by Ahmet Ozuduru (Hannover, Germany), Eugen Henze (Wedemark, Germany) and Lubos Kuniak (Ladce, Slovak Republic).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A pneumatic vehicle tire having a tread, a belt assembly, a radial carcass, and having sidewalls which in each case in their radially outer region have at least two rows of parallelogram-shaped elevations with a height of 0.80 mm to 1.50 mm, determined in relation to the remaining level of the sidewall, said rows running so as to be concentric with the annular s...