US Patent Issued to The Yokohama Rubber on Sept. 9 for "Pneumatic tire" (Japanese Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 10 -- United States Patent no. 12,409,683, issued on Sept. 9, was assigned to The Yokohama Rubber Co. LTD. (Tokyo).

"Pneumatic tire" was invented by Ryohei Takemori (Kanagawa, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A pneumatic tire includes inner intermediate lug grooves having a length L1 and outer intermediate lug grooves having a length L2 formed in inner and outer intermediate land portions, respectively, where lengths L1 and L2 satisfy L1less thanL2. Distances W1, W2, W3, and W4 from a tire equator to an inner shoulder main groove, an inner center main groove, an outer center main groove, and an outer shoulder main groove, respectively, satisfy 0.58less than equal to...