US Patent Issued to COMPAGNIE GENERALE DES ETABLISSEMENTS MICHELIN on May 27 for "Tire comprising a polymeric composition comprising a thermoplastic elastomer comprising units derived from diphenylene ether monomer" (French Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,312,434, issued on May 27, was assigned to COMPAGNIE GENERALE DES ETABLISSEMENTS MICHELIN (Clermont-Ferrand, France).

"Tire comprising a polymeric composition comprising a thermoplastic elastomer comprising units derived from diphenylene ether monomer" was invented by Jean Coue (Clermont-Ferrand, France), Stephanie Laube (Clermont-Ferrand, France), Romain Libert (Clermont-Ferrand, France) and Garry Vegi (Clermont-Ferrand, France).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A tire comprises a polymeric composition comprising at least one block thermoplastic elastomer comprising at least one elastomer block and at least one thermoplastic block, in which...