ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 31 -- United States Patent no. 12,508,845, issued on Dec. 30, was assigned to Continental Reifen Deutschland GmbH (Hannover, Germany).
"Vehicle pneumatic tyre and rubber mixture for a tread" was invented by Christian Weber (Garbsen, Germany), Norbert Muller (Nienhagen, Germany) and Pedro-Nuno Rodrigues (Isernhagen, Germany).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A pneumatic vehicle tire in radial design that is a summer tire or all-season tire, with a profiled tread including rows of profile blocks and/or profile ribs running around the tire in circumferential direction, wherein the total number of sipes within each row of profile blocks and/or profile ribs is not more than 150, ...