US Patent Issued to Toyo Tire on Oct. 20 for "Pneumatic tire" (Japanese Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,766,889, issued on Oct. 20, was assigned to Toyo Tire Corp. (Itami, Japan).

"Pneumatic tire" was invented by Hiroki Amimoto (Itami, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "In a pneumatic tire, a first center block includes a slit that extends from a shoulder main groove and terminates in the block, and a protruding portion that protrudes from a portion adjacent to the slit. The protruding portion protrudes toward the outside of the block beyond a block end on an opposite side of the slit. The shoulder main groove is formed with a groove bottom protrusion in which a groove bottom is raised from a portion adjacent to an opening portion of the...