ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 7 -- United States Patent no. 12,673,519, issued on July 7, was assigned to Sumitomo Rubber Industries Ltd. (Hyogo, Japan).
"Tire" was invented by Ken Miyazawa (Kobe, Japan).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A tire includes a tread portion having a first land region provided with first axial grooves and a second land region provided with second axial grooves. The first axial grooves are arranged at intervals in a first arrangement over the entire tire circumference. In the first arrangement, in a pair of adjacent first axial grooves, a first end of one first axial groove is located at the same position in the tire circumferential direction as the second end of the other firs...