US Patent Issued to The Yokohama Rubber on June 3 for "Tire" (Japanese Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 4 -- United States Patent no. 12,319,096, issued on June 3, was assigned to The Yokohama Rubber Co. LTD. (Tokyo).

"Tire" was invented by Hiroaki Sato (Kanagawa, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A tire includes a plurality of main lug grooves and a plurality of sub lug grooves that extend in a tire width direction and penetrate a tread surface, and that are arranged at predetermined intervals in a tire circumferential direction. Additionally, the main lug grooves have a maximum groove width Wg1 of 15.0 mm or more and a maximum groove depth of 23.5 mm or more. In addition, the sub lug grooves have a maximum groove width Wg2 that satisfies 0.10less than equal toWg2/Wg1l...