US Patent Issued to COMPAGNIE GENERALE DES ETABLISSEMENTS MICHELIN on June 23 for "Tire for a heavy duty vehicle with improved grip" (French Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,661,932, issued on June 23, was assigned to COMPAGNIE GENERALE DES ETABLISSEMENTS MICHELIN (Clermont-Ferrand, France).

"Tire for a heavy duty vehicle with improved grip" was invented by David Sauve (Clermont-Ferrand, France), Benoit Buffetaud (Clermont-Ferrand, France) and Arnaud Larregain (Clermont-Ferrand, France).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A tire (1) for a trailer of a heavy-duty vehicle having a tread (2), which has at least one complex circumferential cut (7) in a median portion (4) having a first family of transverse cuts, referred to as transverse through-sipes (81), having a thickness (E1) at most equal to 0.8 mm, a depth (P1)...