US Patent Issued to The Yokohama Rubber on Sept. 23 for "Pneumatic tire and green tire manufacturing method" (Japanese Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 23 -- United States Patent no. 12,420,599, issued on Sept. 23, was assigned to The Yokohama Rubber Co. Ltd. (Tokyo).

"Pneumatic tire and green tire manufacturing method" was invented by Natsumi Takahashi (Kanagawa, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "With a pneumatic tire mounted on a regular rim, inflated to a regular internal pressure, and in an unloaded state, in a tire meridian cross-sectional view, electrically conductive rubber is formed in a region corresponding to a bulging land portion except for a region with a width of 5% of a width of the bulging land portion and being centered at a bulging apex position bulging most toward an outer side of the bulging land...