US Patent Issued to The Yokohama Rubber on July 22 for "Pneumatic tire" (Japanese Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 23 -- United States Patent no. 12,365,205, issued on July 22, was assigned to The Yokohama Rubber Co. LTD. (Tokyo).

"Pneumatic tire" was invented by Koji Nishio (Kanagawa, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "In a pneumatic tire, a bead filler is on an outer circumference of a bead core, a carcass turned up end is inward of an outer diameter side end of the bead filler, the carcass end is spaced from a carcass body, a steel reinforcement is in each bead, a sidewall rubber extends from the sidewall to the bead, and a support layer is between the bead filler and the sidewall rubber to cover the carcass end and an end of the steel reinforcement, the support layer extending ...