US Patent Issued to COMPAGNIE GENERALE DES ETABLISSEMENTS MICHELIN on July 8 for "Tire tread for a heavy-duty vehicle having improved resistance to attack" (French Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,350,971, issued on July 8, was assigned to COMPAGNIE GENERALE DES ETABLISSEMENTS MICHELIN (Clermont-Ferrand, France).

"Tire tread for a heavy-duty vehicle having improved resistance to attack" was invented by Xavier Neau (Clermont-Ferrand, France).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A tire tread (1) for a heavy-duty vehicle to improve resistance to attack by stones. The tread (1) in the new state having at least one complex cut (5) with, along a mean line (Lm), an alternation of external cavities (6), opening onto the tread surface (2), and internal cavities (7), not opening onto the tread surface (2), two consecutive cavities, respectively an ...