US Patent Issued to COMPAGNIE GENERALE DES ETABLISSEMENTS MICHELIN on Oct. 21 for "Method for characterizing a tire in terms of uniformity" (French Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,449,330, issued on Oct. 21, was assigned to COMPAGNIE GENERALE DES ETABLISSEMENTS MICHELIN (Clermont-Ferrand, France).

"Method for characterizing a tire in terms of uniformity" was invented by Christophe De-Kermadec (Clermont-Ferrand, France), Damien Lim (Clermont-Ferrand, France) and Anthony Chanseaume (Clermont-Ferrand, France).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A device (20) for characterizing a tire (10) in terms of uniformity comprises: a frame (22), a rotary support (24) mounted with the ability to rotate relative to the frame (22) and on which the tire (10) is placed and which is intended to be set in rotation at low speed, at least tw...