US Patent Issued to RUD KETTEN RIEGER & DIETZ GMBH U. on Sept. 16 for "Utility vehicle tyre chain having at least one cleat plate, utility vehicle tyre and cleat plate for a utility vehicle tyre chain" (German, Austrian Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,415,390, issued on Sept. 16, was assigned to RUD KETTEN RIEGER & DIETZ GMBH U. Co. KG (Aalen, Germany).

"Utility vehicle tyre chain having at least one cleat plate, utility vehicle tyre and cleat plate for a utility vehicle tyre chain" was invented by Johannes Rieger (Oberkochen, Germany), Bernd Rosler (Aalen-Wasseralfingen, Germany) and Daniel Tafner (Graz, Austria).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A utility vehicle tire chain, in particular for forestry vehicles, tractors, or wheel loaders, has a plurality of cleat plates directly or indirectly connected to one another via chain strands, wherein each cleat plate has at least one cleat to...