ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 2 -- United States Patent no. 12,485,708, issued on Dec. 2, was assigned to Continental Reifen Deutschland GmbH (Hannover, Germany).
"Pneumatic vehicle tire" was invented by Stefan Rittweger (Garbsen, Germany).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A vehicle tire having a sidewall with at least one sidewall decoration that extends at least over a circumferential portion of the sidewall and is made up of structured surface elements, smooth surface elements and base hatching that adjoins these surface elements and is made up of hatching ribs that extend without branching and intersecting, wherein the structured surface elements reproduce a copy or a shadow at least of partial regio...