US Patent Issued to COMPAGNIE GENERALE DES ETABLISSEMENTS MICHELIN on July 8 for "Method for determining the wear condition of an aircraft tire" (French Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,350,974, issued on July 8, was assigned to COMPAGNIE GENERALE DES ETABLISSEMENTS MICHELIN (Clermont-Ferrand, Germany).

"Method for determining the wear condition of an aircraft tire" was invented by Olivier Francois (Clermont-Ferrand, France) and Julien Brunet (Clermont-Ferrand, France).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Method for determining the state of wear of an aeroplane tire to predict its remaining number of landings, wherein the aeroplane tire has a tread with a circumferential ridge having a wear indicator, where the method includes capturing a first positioning pattern of the wear indicator that marks the positioning of the wear ind...