US Patent Issued to Cheng Shin Rubber Ind. on Aug. 5 for "Pneumatic tire capable of maintaining steering ability and improving drainage" (Taiwanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,377,686, issued on Aug. 5, was assigned to Cheng Shin Rubber Ind. Co. Ltd. (Changhua County, Taiwan).

"Pneumatic tire capable of maintaining steering ability and improving drainage" was invented by Jen-Hsuan Tseng (Changhua County, Taiwan) and Liang-Kuei Wang (Changhua County, Taiwan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A pneumatic tire capable of maintaining steering ability and improving drainage includes a tire body, a plurality of first auxiliary grooves, a plurality of second auxiliary grooves, and a plurality of third auxiliary grooves. Each first auxiliary groove is gradually tapered from a first outer end toward an outer side. Each seco...