ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,459,299, issued on Nov. 4, was assigned to The Yokohama Rubber Co. LTD. (Tokyo).
"Pneumatic tire" was invented by Takanori Uemura (Kanagawa, Japan).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Provided is a pneumatic tire. A chamfered portion and a non-chamfered portion are provided in each of an edge on a leading side and an edge on a trailing side of a sipe. In a meridian cross-sectional view, a profile line of a rib projects further to an outer side in a tire radial direction than a reference tread profile line. A radius of curvature TR of the reference tread profile line and a radius of curvature RR of the profile line satisfy TRless thanRR. Only on...