ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,214,682, issued on Feb. 4, was assigned to BRIDGESTONE Corp. (Tokyo).
"Tire/wheel assembly and tire" was invented by Isao Kuwayama (Tokyo).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A tire/wheel assembly includes a wheel including a disk and a rim, the wheel having a power reception device attached to an outer peripheral surface of the rim to receive electric power supplied wirelessly from farther outward in a radial direction of the wheel than the rim, and a tire attached so as to cover an outer peripheral surface of the wheel and including a pair of sidewall portions. A gauge of the sidewall portions is 1.5 mm or more."
The patent was filed on July...