US Patent Issued to The Yokohama Rubber on July 8 for "Tire" (Japanese Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,350,973, issued on July 8, was assigned to The Yokohama Rubber Co. LTD. (Tokyo).

"Tire" was invented by Kotaro Matsushita (Kanagawa, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A tire tread pattern includes a center land portion and an intermediate land portion on an outer side in a width direction thereof. A center land portion region includes no grooves, includes a first sipe having a wide width open to circumferential main grooves on both sides and includes a second sipe having a narrow width between adjacent first sipes and open to the circumferential main grooves on both sides. An intermediate land portion region includes an intermediate lu...