ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,233,670, issued on Feb. 25, was assigned to Continental Reifen Deutschland GmbH (Hannover, Germany).
"Pneumatic vehicle tyre with circumferential groove" was invented by Wilke Eikermann (Hannover, Germany).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A pneumatic vehicle tire having a tread (2) which has a profiling and which has at least one circumferential groove (1) which runs in encircling fashion in the circumferential direction of the pneumatic vehicle tire and is formed to a profile depth PT and which has, in alternating fashion over the entire tire circumference over partial sections (21, 24) of the circumference of the pneumatic vehicle tire, a...