US Patent Issued to THE GOODYEAR TIRE & RUBBER on July 8 for "Tread rubber composition with majority renewable content" (Ohio Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,351,717, issued on July 8, was assigned to THE GOODYEAR TIRE & RUBBER COMPANY (Akron, Ohio).

"Tread rubber composition with majority renewable content" was invented by Stacey Lynne Dean-Sioss (Broadview Heights, Ohio).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A tire component formed from a rubber composition comprises a majority weight percent of renewable materials. The rubber composition comprises, based on 100 parts per weight (phr) of elastomer: a blend of at least two rubber elastomers selected from a group consisting of: from about 40 phr to about 50 phr polybutadiene; up to about 35 phr of styrene-butadiene copolymer; up to about 45 phr of nat...