US Patent Issued to SUMITOMO RUBBER INDUSTRIES on July 14 for "Tire" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 14 -- United States Patent no. 12,679,147, issued on July 14, was assigned to SUMITOMO RUBBER INDUSTRIES LTD. (Kobe, Japan).

"Tire" was invented by Sawa Ogihara (Kobe, Japan), Ryuhei Sanae (Kobe, Japan), Ken Miyazawa (Kobe, Japan), Tatsuya Sasaki (Kobe, Japan) and Naoto Oishi (Kobe, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A tread portion includes a land portion provided with lateral groove-shaped elements arranged in a first array. Each lateral groove-shaped element extends from a first end to a second end. In the first array, the second end of one of the lateral groove-shaped elements is located at the circumferential same position as the first end of another of the latera...