ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,441,072, issued on Oct. 14, was assigned to The Goodyear Tire & Rubber Co. (Akron, Ohio).
"Reinforced tread and method of forming" was invented by Hongbing Chen (Broadview Heights, Ohio), Christopher David Dyrlund (Canton, Ohio), Adam Mark Baldan (Akron, Ohio) and Elizabeth Amelia Rogenski (Atwater, Ohio).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for forming a composite tread, the method comprising the steps of forming a coextruded strip of a first compound and a second compound, wherein the first compound is a tread compound, and the second compound is formed from a high-wear compound, wherein the tread is formed from winding the coextrude...