US Patent Issued to THE GOODYEAR TIRE & RUBBER on April 29 for "Tire with tread containing vegetable oil extended high Tg styrene/butadiene elastomer and traction resin" (Ohio Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,286,529, issued on April 29, was assigned to THE GOODYEAR TIRE & RUBBER COMPANY (Akron, Ohio).

"Tire with tread containing vegetable oil extended high Tg styrene/butadiene elastomer and traction resin" was invented by Michael Lawrence Gersman (Cleveland), Nihat Ali Isitman (Hudson, Ohio) and Philip Jordan Young (Twinsburg, Ohio).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "This invention relates to a tire with high performance tread of rubber composition for promoting tread durability and traction. For such purpose, a tread rubber composition is provided which contains a high Tg solvent solution polymerization prepared styrene/butadiene elastomer (SSBR)...