US Patent Issued to BRIDGESTONE on June 24 for "Aircraft tire" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,337,620, issued on June 24, 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 outer side in a radial direction of 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 an information about the aircraft tire and an antenna extended from the tag main body, wherein, when a diameter size of the aircraft tire is 15 inches or less, in a tre...