US Patent Issued to The Yokohama Rubber on July 28 for "Tire" (Japanese Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,691,708, issued on July 28, was assigned to The Yokohama Rubber Co. LTD. (Tokyo).

"Tire" was invented by Yoshifumi Koishikawa (Kanagawa, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A pneumatic tire includes circumferential grooves, lug grooves, land portions defined by the circumferential grooves and the lug grooves, and a narrow groove in the land portions that extends in a circumferential direction. At least one of the circumferential grooves that defines the land portions in which the narrow groove is disposed has an amplitude in a width direction while extending in the circumferential direction to be formed in zigzag shape including long an...