US Patent Issued to COMPAGNIE GENERALE DES ETABLISSEMENTS MICHELIN on July 1 for "Tire for an agricultural vehicle" (French Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,344,042, issued on July 1, was assigned to COMPAGNIE GENERALE DES ETABLISSEMENTS MICHELIN (Clermont-Ferrand, France).

"Tire for an agricultural vehicle" was invented by Delphine Ouvray (Clermont-Ferrand, France), Philippe Brochet (Clermont-Ferrand, France), Catherine Houis (Clermont-Ferrand, France), Patrick Vervaet (Clermont-Ferrand, France) and Gabriel Veniant (Clermont-Ferrand, France).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The tread pattern of a tire for a vehicle for agricultural use comprises two rows of lugs (R1, R2), a first row being made up of a circumferential distribution of at least two families of lugs, over one revolution of the whe...