ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 20 -- United States Patent no. 12,391,066, issued on Aug. 19, was assigned to GV ENGINEERING GMBH (Heimsheim, Germany).
"Emergency wheel attachment for a vehicle wheel" was invented by Konstantinos Tsiberidis (Untergruppenbach, Germany).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An emergency wheel attachment is provided for attachment to an outside of a vehicle wheel so as to enable a driving operation with restricted tire function, and includes an annular mounting unit configured to mount the emergency wheel attachment on the vehicle wheel, and an annular tread unit configured to contact, in the operating state of the emergency wheel attachment, a road on which the vehicle wheel is ...