US Patent Issued to Continental Reifen Deutschland on Oct. 14 for "Pneumatic vehicle tire having a belt bandage having at least one belt ply" (German Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,441,138, issued on Oct. 14, was assigned to Continental Reifen Deutschland GmbH (Hannover, Germany).

"Pneumatic vehicle tire having a belt bandage having at least one belt ply" was invented by Mihail Catana (Hannover, Germany), Daniel De Castro Pinho (Hohenhameln, Germany), Thomas Kramer (Herford, Germany) and Michael Schunack (Hannover, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A pneumatic vehicle tire with a belt assembly with at least one belt ply reinforced with steel cords embedded in rubber material. The steel cords each having the same number of steel filaments, are arranged parallel to one another and at at least substantially equal...