ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,459,296, issued on Nov. 4, was assigned to SUMITOMO RUBBER INDUSTRIES LTD. (Hyogo, Japan).
"Tire" was invented by Masaki Oshimo (Hyogo, Japan) and You Toshima (Hyogo, Japan).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A tire having a tread composed of a rubber composition that includes a rubber component, wherein the tread has at least one circumferential main groove extending continuously in a tire circumferential direction, wherein, at a bending part in a plurality, the circumferential main groove bends and extends in the tire circumferential direction such that a center line of the circumferential main groove deviates in a tire width direction or an...