US Patent Issued to COMPAGNIE GENERALE DES ETABLISSEMENTS MICHELIN on Aug. 4 for "Method for producing a rubber composition comprising a rubber crumb" (French Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,698,379, issued on Aug. 4, was assigned to COMPAGNIE GENERALE DES ETABLISSEMENTS MICHELIN (Clermont-Ferrand, France).

"Method for producing a rubber composition comprising a rubber crumb" was invented by Etienne Fleury (Clermont-Ferrand, France) and Mathilde Lacoste (Clermont-Ferrand, France).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A process for preparing a rubber composition based on at least one diene elastomer, a reinforcing filler, a crumb rubber and a crosslinking system is provided. The process comprises at least the following steps: incorporating the reinforcing filler into the diene elastomer, all at once or in several stages, and mixing; w...