ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,558,924, issued on Feb. 24, was assigned to The Yokohama Rubber Co. LTD. (Tokyo).
"Pneumatic tire" was invented by Yuki Sasaya (Hiratsuka, Japan), Masaaki Nagayasu (Hiratsuka, Japan), Ryohei Takemori (Hiratsuka, Japan) and Hiraku Kouda (Hiratsuka, Japan).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A pneumatic tire includes protrusion portions projecting from and extending along a tire side portion, the protrusion portions being disposed on an outer side in a tire radial direction in an placement region that is a region from a position of 15% to a position of 85% of a tire cross-sectional height from a reference position on an inner side in the tire ra...