US Patent Issued to COMPAGNIE GENERALE DES ETABLISSEMENTS MICHELIN on Aug. 26 for "Curing mold for a tire, comprising means for cutting a rubber mold seam" (French Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,397,522, issued on Aug. 26, was assigned to COMPAGNIE GENERALE DES ETABLISSEMENTS MICHELIN (Clermont-Ferrand, France).

"Curing mold for a tire, comprising means for cutting a rubber mold seam" was invented by Damien Bardin (Clermont-Ferrand, France).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A curing mold (10) for a tire comprises: a plurality of circumferentially distributed sectors (18) that are intended to mold the tread of the tire, at least one sipe blade (40) intended to mold a void in the tread, the sipe blade extending over two adjacent sectors (18) such that the sipe blade comprises a part (40a, 40b) in each of the two sectors, the two parts...