US Patent Issued to The Goodyear Tire & Rubber on Nov. 25 for "Vehicle wheel with a particle collector" (Luxembourger, Belgian, French, German Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,479,236, issued on Nov. 25, was assigned to The Goodyear Tire & Rubber Co. (Akron, Ohio).

"Vehicle wheel with a particle collector" was invented by Sebastien Willy Fontaine (Vichten, Luxembourg), Armand Rene Gabriel Leconte (Echillais, France), Frederic Ngo (Mersch, Luxembourg), Bodo Aherns (Trier, Germany) and Vincent Jean-Emile Decouvreur (Florennes, Belgium).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A wheel assembly having a wheel rotation axis; a rim with an outer surface around the wheel rotation axis; wherein the outer surface comprising suction ports; two tires mounted on the outer surface of the rim; a particle collector adapted to trap part...