US Patent Issued to COMPAGNIE GENERALE DES ETABLISSEMENTS MICHELIN on May 20 for "Automated flow control for rubber product manufacturing processes" (French Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,304,737, issued on May 20, was assigned to COMPAGNIE GENERALE DES ETABLISSEMENTS MICHELIN (Clermont-Ferrand, France).

"Automated flow control for rubber product manufacturing processes" was invented by Gregory Marcet (Clermont-Ferrand, France), Gwenael Favro (Clermont-Ferrand, France) and Olivier Combe (Clermont-Ferrand, France).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A supply installation (22) for a site (10) for producing rubber products from rubber blocks of rubber mixtures of predetermined weight and volume includes: an input station where the supply installation performs a process of entry of empty bins (BV) for receiving, during a picking pr...