US Patent Issued to COMPAGNIE GENERALE DES ETABLISSEMENTS MICHELIN on Feb. 24 for "Filament guiding and retention machine and method of use" (French Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,558,822, issued on Feb. 24, was assigned to COMPAGNIE GENERALE DES ETABLISSEMENTS MICHELIN (Clermont-Ferrand, France).

"Filament guiding and retention machine and method of use" was invented by Guillaume Le Noen (Clermont-Ferrand, France), Franck Siler (Clermont-Ferrand, France), Jerome Tremblier (Clermont-Ferrand, France) and Baptiste Forichon (Clermont-Ferrand, France).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A guidance and maintenance machine (100) includes a guide roller (102) and an application roller (104), each having a plurality of respective grooves (102a, 104a) defined on a respective circumferential surface (102b, 104b). The guidance and...