US Patent Issued to The Yokohama Rubber on July 29 for "Pneumatic tire" (Japanese Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,370,838, issued on July 29, was assigned to The Yokohama Rubber Co. LTD. (Tokyo).

"Pneumatic tire" was invented by Takamasa Motomitsu (Kanagawa, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A pneumatic tire includes a pair of circumferential main grooves extending in a tire circumferential direction, and a pair of shoulder land portions and a single center land portion defined and formed by the circumferential main grooves. In addition, the center land portion includes a plurality of center narrow shallow grooves extending through the center land portion in a tire width direction. A groove depth H21 of the center narrow shallow groove is in a ra...