US Patent Issued to Apollo Tyres on Sept. 22 for "Pneumatic tire with groove" (Indian Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,741,488, issued on Sept. 22, was assigned to Apollo Tyres Ltd. (Tamil Nadu, India).

"Pneumatic tire with groove" was invented by Vijai Karthik Gurumoorthy (Tamilnadu, India) and Saraj Vijayakumaran Nair Sreekumari (Kerala, India).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A tire comprising a tread portion for contacting the ground and a pair of opposing sidewall portions, the tread portion extending between a pair of shoulders and having an equatorial region in between, the sidewall portions extending essentially in a radial direction from the shoulders, wherein the tread portion comprises next to the shoulder at least one circumferential groove for...