US Patent Issued to The Goodyear Tire & Rubber on Dec. 9 for "Tire with variable number of lateral blocks per pitch" (Luxembourger Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,491,738, issued on Dec. 9, was assigned to The Goodyear Tire & Rubber Co. (Akron, Ohio).

"Tire with variable number of lateral blocks per pitch" was invented by Sebastien Willy Fontaine (Vichten, Luxembourg), Thomas Charles Pierre Roland (Luxembourg), Armand Rene Gabriel Leconte (Insenborn, Luxembourg) and Frederic Ngo (Mersch, Luxembourg).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present invention provides a tire for a vehicle comprising: a rotation axis, a midplane at a central position along the rotation axis; a circumferential tread portion around the rotation axis, the circumferential tread portion comprising: a tread pattern exhibiting at l...