ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,258,473, issued on March 25, was assigned to Continental Reifen Deutschland GmbH (Hannover, Germany).

"Sulfur-crosslinkable rubber mixture, vulcanizate and vehicle tyre" was invented by Julien Davin (Hessisch Oldendorf, Germany), Julia Schoffel (Hannover, Germany), Fabian Schax (Seelze, Germany), Christine Weber (Garbsen, Germany) and Marion Puppa (Hannover, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The invention relates to a sulfur-crosslinkable rubber mixture, to a vulcanizate and to a vehicle tire.The sulfur-crosslinkable rubber mixture contains at least the following constituents: 50 to 100 phr of at least one polyisoprene selected fro...