US Patent Issued to The Yokohama Rubber on July 22 for "Pneumatic tire and method for manufacturing pneumatic tire" (Japanese, Chinese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 23 -- United States Patent no. 12,365,204, issued on July 22, was assigned to The Yokohama Rubber Co. LTD. (Tokyo).

"Pneumatic tire and method for manufacturing pneumatic tire" was invented by Takanori Ito (Kanagawa, Japan), Hiroaki Honda (Kanagawa, Japan), Mari Shimizu (Kanagawa, Japan), Mingquan Wang (Shandong, China), Feng Gao (Shandong, China), Jingwei Huang (Shandong, China), Niancun Wang (Shandong, China), Yulong Li (Shandong, China), Jiang Wu (Shandong, China), Xiquan Jia (Shandong, China) and Yuchao Jiao (Shandong, China).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "In a pneumatic tire, a bead core has end portions in a tire width direction formed as vertical lines along a tire...