ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 7 -- United States Patent no. 12,594,791, issued on April 7, was assigned to The Yokohama Rubber Co. LTD. (Tokyo).
"Tire" was invented by Reika Tokunaga (Kanagawa, Japan).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A tire includes a plurality of circumferential grooves extending in a tire circumferential direction, and a plurality of land portions defined by the circumferential grooves. Further, at least one of the circumferential grooves includes tie bars formed in a groove bottom of the circumferential groove and connecting the land portions adjacent to each other across the circumferential groove. Furthermore, each of the tie bars includes a slit that extends through the tie bar i...