ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 31 -- United States Patent no. 12,508,849, issued on Dec. 30, was assigned to The Yokohama Rubber Co. LTD. (Tokyo).
"Tire" was invented by Hiraku Koda (Kanagawa, Japan), Takahisa Murata (Kanagawa, Japan) and Masatoshi Shimizu (Kanagawa, Japan).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Provided is a tire having a cross-sectional height (SH) ranging from 50 mm to 150 mm, in an unloaded state where the tire is mounted on a specified rim and inflated to a specified internal pressure, an opening distance (A) between the tire and a rim flange on a perpendicular line drawn from an outermost point of the rim flange in a radial direction to an outer surface of the tire with respect to the cr...