US Patent Issued to COMPAGNIE GENERALE DES ETABLISSEMENTS MICHELIN on July 8 for "Device consisting of an elastomer matrix, comprising piezoelectric charges and electrodes" (French Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,356,862, issued on July 8, was assigned to COMPAGNIE GENERALE DES ETABLISSEMENTS MICHELIN (Clermont-Ferrand, France).

"Device consisting of an elastomer matrix, comprising piezoelectric charges and electrodes" was invented by Francois Lafort (Clermont-Ferrand, France), Xavier Lebrun (Clermont-Ferrand, France) and Guillaume Pibre (Clermont-Ferrand, France).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A piezoelectric device comprises at least one piezoelectric composite layer P inserted between two conductive composite layers E, each layer E forming an electrode, characterized in that: the layer P is a rubber composition containing more than 50 parts by w...