US Patent Issued to The Yokohama Rubber on March 24 for "Tire" (Japanese Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,583,262, issued on March 24, was assigned to The Yokohama Rubber Co. LTD. (Tokyo).

"Tire" was invented by Reika Tokunaga (Kanagawa, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "In a tire, at least one of middle land portions includes a plurality of through narrow grooves extending through the middle land portion in a tire width direction, a plurality of middle blocks each defined and formed by the through narrow grooves, and a non-through lug grooves each opening at one end to an edge portion on a tire equatorial plane side of the middle block and terminating at an other end in a central portion of the middle block. Further, a center groove has...