US Patent Issued to COMPAGNIE GENERALE DES ETABLISSEMENTS MICHELIN on March 4 for "Method for producing a tire provided with a radiofrequency communications module" (French Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,240,193, issued on March 4, was assigned to COMPAGNIE GENERALE DES ETABLISSEMENTS MICHELIN (Clermont-Ferrand, France).

"Method for producing a tire provided with a radiofrequency communications module" was invented by Luc Bestgen (Clermont-Ferrand, France), Henri Hinc (Clermont-Ferrand, France) and Severine Glibert (Clermont-Ferrand, France).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for manufacturing a tire (1) equipped with a communication module (20) consists in successively, and in the order required by the architecture of said tire, laying rubber products, notably profiled elements (50) and reinforcing elements on a given support in ord...