ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,479,133, issued on Nov. 25, was assigned to Continental Reifen Deutschland GmbH (Hannover, Germany).

"Combined production method for a moulding tool for the moulding vulcanization of a vehicle tire and vehicle tire" was invented by Stefan Rittweger (Garbsen, Germany) and Juraj Jurco (Hannover, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for producing a molding tool (5) of a vulcanization device for the molding vulcanization of a vehicle tire (1), wherein the molding tool (5) has a negative contrast structure (6) on a molding surface of the molding tool (5), with the following steps: a) providing the molding tool (5) having the moldin...