ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,459,309, issued on Nov. 4, was assigned to The Yokohama Rubber Co. LTD. (Tokyo).
"Pneumatic tire" was invented by Masahiro Naruse (Hiratsuka, Japan), Jun Matsuda (Hiratsuka, Japan) and Takashi Hoshiba (Hiratsuka, Japan).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A pneumatic tire includes a sound absorbing member having a band shape. The sound absorbing member is bonded to an inner surface of a tread portion along a tire circumferential direction. The sound absorbing member includes a missing portion at at least one location in the tire circumferential direction. The at least one missing portion is disposed in a range corresponding to a light point in ...