US Patent Issued to COMPAGNIE GENERALE DES ETABLISSEMENTS MICHELIN on Nov. 18 for "Tire comprising a durable stiffening structure" (French Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 18 -- United States Patent no. 12,472,775, issued on Nov. 18, was assigned to COMPAGNIE GENERALE DES ETABLISSEMENTS MICHELIN (Clermont-Ferrand, France).

"Tire comprising a durable stiffening structure" was invented by Mathieu Girard (Clermont-Ferrand, France), Matthieu Bonnamour (Clermont-Ferrand, France), Stephane Callamand (Clermont-Ferrand, France), Alexandre Laval (Clermont-Ferrand, France), David Hernandez (Clermont-Ferrand, France), Julien Falempin (Clermont-Ferrand, France) and Antoine Filiol (Clermont-Ferrand, France).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The tire (10) comprises a crown (12), two sidewalls (30A, 30B), two beads (32A, 32B), an inner surface (33) delimitin...