ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 7 -- United States Patent no. 12,594,790, issued on April 7, was assigned to SUMITOMO RUBBER INDUSTRIES LTD. (Kobe, Japan).
"Tire" was invented by Yoshifumi Kawagoe (Kobe, Japan).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A tire includes a first middle land portion provided with middle lateral grooves that traverses the first middle land portion completely in the tire axial direction, and first middle sipes that extends from a first longitudinal edge of the first middle land portion and has terminal ends in the first middle land portion. Each middle lateral groove includes a first groove portion extending from the first longitudinal edge, a second groove portion extending from a sec...