ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 18 -- United States Patent no. 12,325,265, issued on June 10, was assigned to Continental Reifen Deutschland GmbH (Hannover, Germany).
"Commercial vehicle tire" was invented by Andreas Schwenke (Isernhagen, Germany), Florian Kristen (Burgwedel, Germany), Chun Yi Yeo (Hannover, Germany) and Helge Rother (Garbsen, Germany).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Commercial vehicle tire of radial design with a tread with circumferential grooves formed to a profile depth, which divide the tread into at least two profile ribs (1) running in the central region of the tread with profile blocks (2) separated from one another by transverse grooves (3) and into shoulder-side profile ribs, w...