US Patent Issued to COMPAGNIE GENERALE DES ETABLISSEMENTS MICHELIN on Jan. 13 for "Tire tread for a heavy vehicle with improved robustness" (French Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 13 -- United States Patent no. 12,522,023, issued on Jan. 13, was assigned to COMPAGNIE GENERALE DES ETABLISSEMENTS MICHELIN (Clermont-Ferrand, France).

"Tire tread for a heavy vehicle with improved robustness" was invented by Olivier Spinnler (Clermont-Ferrand, France).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A tire tread (1), for a heavy-duty construction plant vehicle, having an improved compromise between resistance to mechanical attack caused by stony ground and grip on muddy ground. The tread (1) has five rows (41, 42, 43) separated in pairs by a longitudinal cut (51, 52) and are distributed, along the transverse direction (YY'), in a median row (43), two intermediate rows (4...