US Patent Issued to COMPAGNIE GENERALE DES ETABLISSEMENTS MICHELIN on Sept. 16 for "Tire comprising specified hooping ply" (French Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,415,384, issued on Sept. 16, was assigned to COMPAGNIE GENERALE DES ETABLISSEMENTS MICHELIN (Clermont-Ferrand, France).

"Tire comprising specified hooping ply" was invented by Sabrina Rih (Clermont-Ferrand, France), Richard Cornille (Clermont-Ferrand, France) and Herve Ferigo (Clermont-Ferrand, France).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A tire (10) comprises a crown (12) comprising a tread (20), a crown reinforcement (14), a carcass reinforcement (32), two side walls (22), two beads (24), each side wall (22) linking each bead (24) to the crown (12), the crown reinforcement (14) extending in the crown (12) in a circumferential direction (Z) o...