US Patent Issued to The Yokohama Rubber on Sept. 2 for "Tire" (Japanese Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,403,725, issued on Sept. 2, was assigned to The Yokohama Rubber Co. LTD. (Tokyo).

"Tire" was invented by Kenji Horiuchi (Kanagawa, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "In a tire with a specified mounting direction, groove area ratios Rin and Rout in ground contact regions on the vehicle inner and outer sides, respectively, satisfy Rinless thanRout, average land portion areas Ain and Aout of intermediate regions Min and Mout on the vehicle inner and outer sides, respectively, satisfy Aingreater thanAout, the number of blocks Nin and Nout in the intermediate regions Min and Mout, respectively, satisfy Ninless than=1.5xNout, total sipe leng...