ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,236,302, issued on Feb. 25, was assigned to BRIDGESTONE Corp. (Tokyo).
"Aircraft tire" was invented by Tomoyuki Muramatsu (Tokyo) and Toshihiko Iwasaki (Tokyo).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An aircraft tire has a pair of bead sections, sidewall sections extending from the bead sections, and a tread section extending between the sidewall sections; the aircraft tire includes an RFID tag having a tag main body (IC chip) configured to store information about the aircraft tire, and an antenna extended from the tag main body, wherein, in a tread surface view, the antenna is disposed such that an extending direction of the antenna is parallel t...