ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 11 -- United States Patent no. 12,466,910, issued on Nov. 11, was assigned to Toyo Tire Corp. (Itami, Japan).
"Rubber composition and tire" was invented by Kensuke Shirode (Itami, Japan).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A rubber composition according to an embodiment contains a diene rubber and silica. A change rate of a distance between aggregates represented by V50/V0 calculated by an inertia radius V50 of a silica aggregate and an inertia radius V0 of the silica aggregate is 1.30 or more. The inertia radius V50 is obtained by performing a small-angle X-ray scattering measurement in a state where a vulcanized rubber obtained by vulcanizing the rubber composition is elonga...