US Patent Issued to Toyo Tire on Sept. 1 for "Tire" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 1 -- United States Patent no. 12,722,428, issued on Sept. 1, was assigned to Toyo Tire Corp. (Itami, Japan).

"Tire" was invented by Yuki Takagi (Itami, Japan) and Shota Yanahara (Itami, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A tire including a pattern region on an outer surface of a sidewall of the tire, the pattern region being visually recognizable as being different from a region other than the pattern region in the outer surface of the side wall of the tire; and a plurality of character protrusions separate from each other in the pattern region. The character protrusions each imitate a character or a rotated or inverted character. Regions each of which has a shape of ...