ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,337,617, issued on June 24, was assigned to Compagnie Generale des Etablissements Michelin (Clermont-Ferrand, France).
"Truck tire tread and truck tire" was invented by Fang Zhu (Greer, S.C.), Terence Wallace (Simpsonville, S.C.), Stefan Voss (Greer, S.C.), Virgile Ayglon (Greer, S.C.), Clarence Hair Jr. (Greenville, S.C.) and Charles McPillan (Simpsonville, S.C.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The invention provides for a heavy truck tire tread (2) having a longitudinal direction, a lateral direction and a thickness direction, said tread having a ground-engaging contact surface (CS) and having a main longitudinal center groove (5), two m...