ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,370,832, issued on July 29, was assigned to The Yokohama Rubber Co. LTD. (Tokyo).
"Pneumatic tire" was invented by Hideki Hamanaka (Hiratsuka, Japan).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A pneumatic tire comprises a carcass layer, a belt layer radially outward of the carcass layer, and a tread rubber radially outward of the belt layer. A belt cord angle of a belt layer large angle belt is 45-70deg, opposite sign belt cord angles of cross belts are 10-45deg, and a reinforcing layer belt cord angle is within plus-minus5deg of a circumferential direction. A reinforcing layer width Ws and a carcass cross-sectional width Wca satisfy 0.60less than eq...