ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,377,689, issued on Aug. 5, was assigned to The Yokohama Rubber Co. LTD. (Tokyo).
"Pneumatic tire" was invented by Takashi Hoshiba (Hiratsuka, Japan), Mizuki Kuninaka (Hiratsuka, Japan) and Noriyoshi Koyama (Hiratsuka, Japan).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A surface of a sidewall portion of a pneumatic tire includes: a ridge pattern region provided with a plurality of ridges extending continuously in one direction at an interval, a smooth surface region composed of a smooth surface, and a two-dimensional code having a rectangular shape in which a dot pattern is formed of two kinds of gray scale elements that are formed distinguishable from ...