US Patent Issued to The Yokohama Rubber on April 8 for "Pneumatic tire" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,269,298, issued on April 8, was assigned to The Yokohama Rubber Co. LTD. (Tokyo).

"Pneumatic tire" was invented by Masataka Kubota (Hiratsuka, Japan) and Noboru Kuwahara (Tokyo).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "In a pneumatic tire, an inner shoulder land portion includes shoulder lug grooves that extend in the tire lateral direction. Additionally, an inner second land portion includes the through lug groove that extends through the inner second land portion in the tire lateral direction. A center land portion includes a single circumferential narrow groove extending in the tire circumferential direction and center lug grooves that each open...