US Patent Issued to Continental Reifen Deutschland on July 22 for "Method for producing a mould segment of a vulcanizing mould, mould segment, and vulcanizing mould" (German Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 23 -- United States Patent no. 12,365,157, issued on July 22, was assigned to Continental Reifen Deutschland GmbH (Hannover, Germany).

"Method for producing a mould segment of a vulcanizing mould, mould segment, and vulcanizing mould" was invented by Jurgen Dzick (Seelze, Germany), Nicholas Hoppe (Wunstorf, Germany) and Bert Voelker (Hannover, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for producing a mold segment of a vulcanizing mold for a pneumatic vehicle tire for forming the profiling of a tread, having a metallic base part (6) with a mold side with ribs (3) which form channels encircling or delimiting profile elements.A rib skeleton (8) consisting of ribs (8')...