US Patent Issued to Compagnie Generale des Etablissements Michelin on Nov. 4 for "Method for heavy truck platooning order on wet roads using tire tread volumetric void percentage" (South Carolina Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,462,689, issued on Nov. 4, was assigned to Compagnie Generale des Etablissements Michelin (Clermont-Ferrand, France).

"Method for heavy truck platooning order on wet roads using tire tread volumetric void percentage" was invented by Jeremy Trowbridge (Greenville, S.C.), Gurkan Erdogan (Greer, S.C.) and Robert Ciprian Radulescu (Greenville, S.C.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for platooning tractor trailers (12, 20) is provided in which tread volumetric void percentages of first tractor tires (18) and second tractor tires (26) are determined. These tread volumetric void percentages are weighted at a ratio of at least 80/20 steer/d...