ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 31 -- United States Patent no. 12,508,846, issued on Dec. 30, was assigned to The Yokohama Rubber Co. LTD. (Tokyo).
"Tire" was invented by Hideki Nagasawa (Kanagawa, Japan) and Hiroto Kikuchi (Kanagawa, Japan).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A tire includes a plurality of main grooves extending in a tire circumferential direction and four or more rows of land portions defined by the main grooves. Moreover, a middle land portion and a center land portion have a plurality of through lug grooves that pass through the land portions in a tire width direction, respectively. Pitch lengths of the through lug grooves are in a range of from 7% or greater to 14% or less of a tire max...