ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,275,209, issued on April 15, was assigned to KUMHO TIRE Co. INC. (Gwangju, South Korea).
"Tire sound absorbing material crimping device" was invented by Woon Yeong Kim (Gwangju, South Korea), Byungjae Go (Gwangju, South Korea), Kyungho Moon (Gwangju, South Korea), Jeong Won Yang (Gwangju, South Korea) and Kyung Hak Cho (Gwangju, South Korea).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present invention provides a tire sound absorbing material crimping device, and more particularly, a tire sound absorbing material crimping device intended to uniformly and firmly press a sound absorbing material adhered to an inner liner portion of a tire. The tire s...