ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,479,130, issued on Nov. 25, was assigned to COMPAGNIE GENERALE DES ETABLISSEMENTS MICHELIN (Clermont-Ferrand, France).

"Production of rubber mixtures in a rubber mixture production line incorporating one or more twin-screw mixing and extrusion machines" was invented by Frederic Barriere (Clermont-Ferrand, France), Bruno Dussardier (Clermont-Ferrand, France), Laurent Huc (Clermont-Ferrand, France), Aurelien Tournebize (Clermont-Ferrand, France) and Randria Tsilavo (Clermont-Ferrand, France).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A production line (200) for performing multi-pass mixing sequences of rubber mixtures has at least one first mixing line...