US Patent Issued to COMPAGNIE GENERALE DES ETABLISSEMENTS MICHELIN on May 20 for "Tread for an agricultural vehicle" (French Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,304,249, issued on May 20, was assigned to COMPAGNIE GENERALE DES ETABLISSEMENTS MICHELIN (Clermont-Ferrand, France).

"Tread for an agricultural vehicle" was invented by Frederic Perrin (Clermont-Ferrand, France), David Dean (Clermont-Ferrand, France) and Maxime Pras (Clermont-Ferrand, France).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A tread (2) for the driven axle of an agricultural vehicle having tread pattern elements (21, 41) extending radially towards the outside from a bearing surface (22). The tread pattern elements have, in the central part of the tread, a series of blocks (41) juxtaposed with one another in the longitudinal direction and s...