US Patent Issued to Toyo Tire on Dec. 16 for "Pneumatic tire" (Japanese Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,496,856, issued on Dec. 16, was assigned to Toyo Tire Corp. (Itami, Japan).

"Pneumatic tire" was invented by Ayaki Nakaishi (Itami, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A pneumatic tire provided on a tread with an outer center circumferential groove, an inner center circumferential groove, an outer shoulder circumferential groove that extend linearly in a tire circumferential direction, and an inner shoulder circumferential groove extending in a zig-zag pattern in the tire circumferential direction. The groove width of the outer center circumferential groove and the groove width of inner center circumferential groove are narrower than th...