US Patent Issued to COMPAGNIE GENERALE DES ETABLISSEMENTS MICHELIN on Nov. 11 for "Tire comprising a circumferential cut-out and a durable stiffening structure and enabling optimized flattening of the tread" (French Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 11 -- United States Patent no. 12,466,215, issued on Nov. 11, was assigned to COMPAGNIE GENERALE DES ETABLISSEMENTS MICHELIN (Clermont-Ferrand, France).

"Tire comprising a circumferential cut-out and a durable stiffening structure and enabling optimized flattening of the tread" was invented by Matthieu Bonnamour (Clermont-Ferrand, France), Bruno Charasson (Clermont-Ferrand, France), Mathieu Girard (Clermont-Ferrand, France), Remi Reynal-De-St-Michel (Clermont-Ferrand, France) and Mathieu Vandaele (Clermont-Ferrand, France).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A tire (10) includes a stiffening structure (50) comprising stiffening elements (52) anchored in the crown (12) and exte...