ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,703,203, issued on Aug. 11, was assigned to The Yokohama Rubber Co. LTD. (Tokyo).
"Tire" was invented by Hiraku Koda (Kanagawa, Japan), Takahisa Murata (Kanagawa, Japan) and Masatoshi Shimizu (Kanagawa, Japan).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A tire-rim assembly includes a tire mounted on a specified rim, the tire having a cross-sectional height of 50-150 mm, in an unloaded state, mounted on the specified rim and inflated to a specified internal pressure. An opening distance A between the tire and a rim flange on a perpendicular line from an outermost point of the rim flange in the radial direction to a tire outer surface relative to the cr...