ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,285,981, issued on April 29, was assigned to Bridgestone Europe NV/SA (Zaventem, Belgium).
"Tire" was invented by Luca Spiri (Rome) and Brenda Cecilia Barrios Perez (Rome).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present invention relates to a tyre (1) comprising: -a carcass (5); -at least one high elongation belt (1, 2, 3, 4), being applied as a single cord externally to said carcass (5); and -an external tread portion (6), provided with two or more grooves (7) extending according to a circumferential direction (L) around said tread portion (6), wherein the axial width (Wg) of at least one of said grooves (7), measured according to an axial dir...