US Patent Issued to COMPAGNIE GENERALE DES ETABLISSEMENTS MICHELIN on Sept. 9 for "Insert for tire mold lining element" (French Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 10 -- United States Patent no. 12,409,622, issued on Sept. 9, was assigned to COMPAGNIE GENERALE DES ETABLISSEMENTS MICHELIN (Clermont-Ferrand, France).

"Insert for tire mold lining element" was invented by Damien Bardin (Clermont-Ferrand, France), Jaroslaw Michno (Clermont-Ferrand, France), Anna Majewska (Clermont-Ferrand, France) and Dariusz Konobrocki (Clermont-Ferrand, France).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An insert (36) is designed to be incorporated in the composition of a fitting element (24) and to form part of the molding surface (40) of the fitting element, the molding surface comprising at least one intersection (32) of at least a first (42) and a second (44)...