US Patent Issued to THE GOODYEAR TIRE & RUBBER on April 8 for "Process for manufacturing a tread molding element of a tire-mold comprising a thermosetting polymer" (Ohio Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,269,195, issued on April 8, was assigned to THE GOODYEAR TIRE & RUBBER COMPANY (Akron, Ohio).

"Process for manufacturing a tread molding element of a tire-mold comprising a thermosetting polymer" was invented by Benjamin Isaiah Garn (Norton, Ohio) and Marc Borowczak (Hartville, Ohio).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The disclosure provides for a process for manufacturing a tread molding element configured to mold at least a portion of a tire tread, the process comprising the following successive steps of providing a first tread molding element that can be a 3D-printed element made of a plastic composition A; forming a reverse mold of the fi...