US Patent Issued to The Goodyear Tire & Rubber on Dec. 2 for "High contrast patterns for sidewall or tread" (Belgian, Luxembourger, German Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 2 -- United States Patent no. 12,485,707, issued on Dec. 2, was assigned to The Goodyear Tire & Rubber Co. (Akron, Ohio).

"High contrast patterns for sidewall or tread" was invented by Sebastien Willy Fontaine (Vichten, Luxembourg), Michel Jean Yves Windeshausen (Messancy, Belgium), Wendy Therese Frida El-Sebaly (Sankt-Vith, Belgium) and Vincent Pierre David Bylda (Langsur, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A tire having a high contrast design pattern is described, wherein one design has a first set of spaced apart wavy lines oriented in a first direction, and a second set of spaced apart wavy lines oriented in a first direction, wherein the first set of wavy lines ...