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Tire tread

Granted 3 Mar 2026 · no office action yet

Current assignee: Bridgestone Corporation · originally Bridgestone

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Inventors: Keigo Saito · Examiner: Michael T. Schaper · AU 6209 · TC 6200

Application
29/980,658
filed 26 Dec 2024
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US D1115665
granted 3 Mar 2026

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Description

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›FIG. 1 is a front perspective view of…

FIG. 1 is a front perspective view of a tire tread showing my new design;

FIG. 2 is a front view thereof, the back view being a mirror image thereof;

FIG. 3 is a top view thereof, the bottom view being identical;

FIG. 4 is a right side view thereof;

FIG. 5 is a left side view thereof;

FIG. 6 is a fragmentary enlarged front view thereof taken along line 6 - 6 in FIG. 2 ; and,

FIG. 7 is a cross sectional end view taken along line 7 - 7 in FIG. 6 .

The broken lines in the drawings illustrate features of a tire tread that are not being claimed, and form no part of the claimed design. The light stippled surface shading represents the surface of the tire tread, and the dark stippled surface shading represents the recessed portion of the tread grooves, having the depth as shown in FIG. 7 .

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D12/565D12/549

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