ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,447,703, issued on Oct. 21, was assigned to The Goodyear Tire & Rubber Co. (Akron, Ohio).
"Tire mold" was invented by Michel Jean Yves Windeshausen (Messancy, Belgium).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A tire tread mold which has a tread mold portion which is divided in into a plurality of mold segments having an inner face curved along the circumferential direction according to an arc angle Alpha, each of the mold segments including laterally extending blades forming projections from their inner face; wherein the mold segments have a first end portion, a second end portion and a central portion; wherein laterally extending blades of the cen...