US Patent Issued to Toyo Tire on Dec. 23 for "Tire" (Japanese Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 23 -- United States Patent no. 12,502,914, issued on Dec. 23, was assigned to Toyo Tire Corp. (Itami, Japan).

"Tire" was invented by Itsuki Oyama (Hyogo, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A tire includes a pattern region on an outer surface of a sidewall of the tire, the pattern region being visually recognizable as being different from a region other than the pattern region in the outer surface of the side wall. The pattern region includes a plurality of projections, each of which includes a bottom surface, a leading end, and a barrel. The barrel includes a bulging portion having a transverse cross section with an equivalent circle diameter that is larger than an equ...