US Patent Issued to Toyo Tire on Oct. 28 for "Pneumatic tire" (Japanese Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,454,152, issued on Oct. 28, was assigned to Toyo Tire Corp. (Itami, Japan).

"Pneumatic tire" was invented by Kota Ono (Itami, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A pneumatic tire capable of securing drainability of the main groove while improving rigidity of blocks and improving steering stability wherein an intermediate land area formed on an inner side of a shoulder main groove includes a plurality of intermediate blocks provided to be aligned in a tire circumferential direction, first intermediate lateral grooves provided between the intermediate blocks, and a plurality of first protrusions protruding from side walls of the intermedi...