US Patent Issued to COMPAGNIE GENERALE DES ETABLISSEMENTS MICHELIN on April 22 for "Method for separation and reassembly" (French Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,281,438, issued on April 22, was assigned to COMPAGNIE GENERALE DES ETABLISSEMENTS MICHELIN (Clermont-Ferrand, France).

"Method for separation and reassembly" was invented by Henri Barguet (Clermont-Ferrand, France), Olivier Reix (Clermont-Ferrand, France) and Gael Pataut (Clermont-Ferrand, France).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The method makes it possible to manufacture an assembly (A) comprising a layer (C) of metal filamentary elements (14) wound in a helix. The method comprises a step (100) of supplying a temporary assembly (22) comprising a layer (13) of M'less than1 metal filamentary elements (14) and a temporary centre (16), and a ...