US Patent Issued to Bridgestone Americas Tire Operations on April 15 for "Non-pneumatic tire having looped support structure and method of making same" (Ohio Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,275,282, issued on April 15, was assigned to Bridgestone Americas Tire Operations LLC (Nashville, Tenn.).

"Non-pneumatic tire having looped support structure and method of making same" was invented by Benjamin E. Rimai (Copley, Ohio), Nicholas J. Harp (Massillon, Ohio), Christopher W. Burton (Stow, Ohio), Andrew V. Haidet (Silver Lake, Ohio), Brandon P. Nelson (Stow, Ohio) and Timothy M. Lusk (Akron, Ohio).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A non-pneumatic tire includes an inner ring, an outer ring, and a plurality of loops extending between the inner ring and the outer ring. The plurality of loops including at least a first loop and a second ...