US Patent Issued to SUMITOMO RUBBER INDUSTRIES on July 7 for "Tire" (Japanese Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 7 -- United States Patent no. 12,673,518, issued on July 7, was assigned to SUMITOMO RUBBER INDUSTRIES LTD. (Kobe, Japan).

"Tire" was invented by Naoya Kitamura (Kobe, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Provided is a tire having a tread portion with a thickness of 15 mm or less, wherein the cap rubber layer forming the tread portion is formed from a rubber composition containing 40 parts by mass or more and 80 parts by mass or less of styrene-butadiene rubber (SBR) with a styrene content of 25% by mass or less, in 100 parts by mass of the rubber component, and in addition to the rubber component, containing silica and carbon black; and having loss tangent 30deg C. tan ...