US Patent Issued to Continental Reifen Deutschland on Aug. 5 for "Vehicle tire with new tire identifier, method for producing a vehicle tire with a new tire identifier, heating mold for tires for producing such a vehicle tire, and use of a new tire identifier on such a vehicle tire" (German Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,377,690, issued on Aug. 5, was assigned to Continental Reifen Deutschland GmbH (Hannover, Germany).

"Vehicle tire with new tire identifier, method for producing a vehicle tire with a new tire identifier, heating mold for tires for producing such a vehicle tire, and use of a new tire identifier on such a vehicle tire" was invented by Nicholas Hoppe (Wunstorf, Germany) and Jurgen Dzick (Seelze, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A vehicle tire having a tread face with at least one new tire marking which is at least partially higher than the surrounded surface of the tread face and is designed to wear out when the tire has been a carriag...