ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 23 -- United States Patent no. 12,420,591, issued on Sept. 23, was assigned to The Goodyear Tire & Rubber Co. (Akron, Ohio).
"Tire tread" was invented by Brian David Digman (Sagamore Hills, Ohio), Brett Alan Bogner (Clinton, Ohio), Jonathan Robert Luke (North Canton, Ohio) and Jeremy Lee Roberts (Hartville, Ohio).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A tire tread includes a plurality of circumferential grooves, each of the plurality extending continuously in a tire circumferential direction. The plurality of circumferential grooves define a circumferentially extending shoulder rib. The shoulder rib has a plurality of shoulder elements. Each shoulder element is defined by two la...