US Patent Issued to The Yokohama Rubber on Aug. 25 for "Tire" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,715,250, issued on Aug. 25, 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: "In a tire having a cross-sectional height from 50-150 mm, in an unloaded state mounted on a specified rim and inflated to a specified internal pressure, a distance (A) between the tire and a rim flange on a perpendicular line drawn from a rim flange outermost point in a radial direction to a tire outer surface with respect to the cross-sectional height (SH) satisfies 0.01less than equal toA/SHless than...