US Patent Issued to The Yokohama Rubber on Sept. 22 for "Tire" (Japanese Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,741,489, issued on Sept. 22, was assigned to The Yokohama Rubber Co. LTD. (Tokyo).

"Tire" was invented by Hiroki Endo (Hiratsuka, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A tire includes a plurality of circumferential main grooves extending in a tire circumferential direction, and a pair of shoulder land portions and one or more rows of center land portions defined by the plurality of circumferential main grooves. Further, at least one of the pair of shoulder land portions includes a plurality of shoulder lug grooves and a plurality of shoulder blocks defined and formed by the plurality of shoulder lug grooves. Additionally, at least a part...