US Patent Issued to TOYO TIRE on Feb. 17 for "Pneumatic tire" (Japanese Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,552,918, issued on Feb. 17, was assigned to TOYO TIRE Corp. (Itami, Japan).

"Pneumatic tire" was invented by Ayana Uchida (Itami, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A pneumatic tire includes: a rubber member A containing a rubber component containing 70 mass % to 100 mass % of a hydrogenated copolymer, sulfur, and a triazine-thiol compound; and a rubber member B containing sulfur and a rubber component containing a diene rubber. The hydrogenated copolymer is obtained by hydrogenating an aromatic vinyl-conjugated diene copolymer, has a weight average molecular weight of 300,000 or more as measured by gel permeation chromatography, and h...