US Patent Issued to BRIDGESTONE on June 23 for "Pneumatic tire" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,661,936, issued on June 23, was assigned to BRIDGESTONE Corp. (Tokyo).

"Pneumatic tire" was invented by Shintaro Hatanaka (Tokyo) and Isao Kuwayama (Tokyo).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Provided is a pneumatic tire including: a pair of bead cores embedded in a pair of bead portions; and a carcass including one or more carcass plies extending in a toroidal form between the pair of bead cores, wherein bead fillers are disposed on an outer side in a tire radial direction of the bead cores, rubber chafers are provided on an outer side in a tire width direction of the bead fillers, and when a storage modulus of the bead fillers is E1', and a ...