ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,251,967, issued on March 18, was assigned to The Yokohama Rubber Co. LTD. (Tokyo).
"Tire" was invented by Kenta Homma (Kanagawa, Japan).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "In a tire tread pattern, inclined grooves extend from a starting end in a center region including an equator toward both sides in a width direction and toward the same side in a circumferential direction to a pattern end. A periphery distance from the equator to the pattern end at an outer side in the width direction being 100%, in ranges separated from the starting end by less than equal to35%, from less than35% to less than equal to50%, from less than50% to less than equa...