US Patent Issued to COMPAGNIE GENERALE DES ETABLISSEMENTS MICHELIN on May 27 for "Tire tread comprising a crosslinking system based on organic peroxide" (French Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,311,701, issued on May 27, was assigned to COMPAGNIE GENERALE DES ETABLISSEMENTS MICHELIN (Clermont-Ferrand, France).

"Tire tread comprising a crosslinking system based on organic peroxide" was invented by Philippe Labrunie (Clermont-Ferrand, France).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A tire tread comprises a rubber composition based on at least from 50 to 100 phr of a first diene elastomer, the first diene elastomer being a polybutadiene-based elastomer, modified with a functional group capable of interacting with silica as reinforcing filler; optionally from 0 to 50 phr of a second diene elastomer; at least 20 phr of carbon black; less than...