ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,397,587, issued on Aug. 26, was assigned to Continental Reifen Deutschland GmbH (Hannover, Germany).
"Pneumatic vehicle tyre" was invented by Stephan Herbst (Langenhagen, Germany), Fabian Zimmermann (Wennigsen, Germany) and Stefan Rittweger (Garbsen, Germany).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The invention concerns a pneumatic vehicle tire having a tread and sidewalls, wherein the tread has at least one shoulder-side profile rib with a shoulder portion extending from the lateral edge of the ground contact patch of the tread in the direction of the respective sidewall and having an outer face, and containing rectangular depressions which are ...