US Patent Issued to COMPAGNIE GENERALE DES ETABLISSEMENTS MICHELIN on Nov. 4 for "Tire for a mixed-use agricultural vehicle" (French Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,459,304, issued on Nov. 4, was assigned to COMPAGNIE GENERALE DES ETABLISSEMENTS MICHELIN (Clermont-Ferrand, France).

"Tire for a mixed-use agricultural vehicle" was invented by Olivier Sejalon (Clermont-Ferrand, France).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A tire for an agricultural vehicle, having a tread consisting of blocks in pairs separated by voids and arranged, over the width of the tread, in a median row, two intermediate rows and two lateral rows. To obtain compromise between rolling resistance and service life in terms of wear in road use, two consecutive blocks of the median row) are separated by a transverse void with a width (E1) a...