US Patent Issued to The Yokohama Rubber on April 7 for "Tire" (Japanese Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 7 -- United States Patent no. 12,594,789, issued on April 7, was assigned to The Yokohama Rubber Co. LTD. (Tokyo).

"Tire" was invented by Naoya Oizumi (Kanagawa, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A tire includes a first shoulder land portion, a first circumferential groove, a first middle land portion, a second circumferential groove, a center land portion, a third circumferential groove, a second middle land portion, a fourth circumferential groove, and a second shoulder land portion in this order from a vehicle mounting inner side in a tire plan view. The center land portion includes a plurality of center sipes extending in a tire width direction. At least one of t...