US Patent Issued to BRIDGESTONE on Sept. 9 for "Method of manufacturing test tire and method of setting tread removal shape" (Japanese Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 10 -- United States Patent no. 12,411,059, issued on Sept. 9, was assigned to BRIDGESTONE Corp. (Tokyo).

"Method of manufacturing test tire and method of setting tread removal shape" was invented by Eiichiro Yamane (Tokyo).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method of manufacturing a test tire and a method of setting a tread removal shape include, moving an outline of a tread surface to set a remaining groove outline, setting a point B at the intersection of a line segment extending radially from a point A, on the tread surface at a position corresponding to 70% to 80% of the tread width, and the remaining groove outline, setting the remaining groove outline farther inward ...