US Patent Issued to The Yokohama Rubber on July 14 for "Tire" (Japanese Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 14 -- United States Patent no. 12,679,145, issued on July 14, was assigned to The Yokohama Rubber Co. LTD. (Tokyo).

"Tire" was invented by Masatoshi Kuriyama (Kanagawa, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A tire includes: main grooves provided in a tread; an intermediate land provided between a first main groove and a second main groove from a vehicle outer side; a first sipe extending through the intermediate land in a width direction; and a first lug groove open to the first main groove. The first sipe is bent in the intermediate land. The first sipe includes a first portion on one side of the bent portion in the width direction, inclined with respect to a circumferen...