US Patent Issued to BRIDGESTONE on Oct. 28 for "Tire" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,454,153, issued on Oct. 28, was assigned to BRIDGESTONE Corp. (Tokyo).

"Tire" was invented by Akinori Yokoyama (Tokyo) and Saya Kamitabira (Tokyo).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The tire of this disclosure is a tire comprising a plurality of circumferential main grooves 2 on a tread surface 1, wherein when a pair of circumferential main grooves, located closest to tread edges on each side in the tire width direction among the plurality of circumferential main grooves 2, are referred to as shoulder main grooves 21a and 21b, at least one of the shoulder main grooves is a normal main groove configured such that a maximum groove width positio...