US Patent Issued to COMPAGNIE GENERALE DES ETABLISSEMENTS MICHELIN on March 18 for "Tire tread for a heavy goods vehicle tire having improved incisions" (French Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,251,969, issued on March 18, was assigned to COMPAGNIE GENERALE DES ETABLISSEMENTS MICHELIN (Clermont-Ferrand, France).

"Tire tread for a heavy goods vehicle tire having improved incisions" was invented by Frederic Domprobst (Clermont-Ferrand, France), Etienne Collet (Clermont-Ferrand, France) and Arnaud Larregain (Clermont-Ferrand, France).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A tread for a heavy goods vehicle tire, the tread having a surface when new suitable for coming into contact with a road surface, this tread having a plurality of optimized incisions opening onto its tread surface when new, each incision made of at least two narrow porti...