ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,583,258, issued on March 24, was assigned to COMPAGNIE GENERALE DES ETABLISSEMENTS MICHELIN (Clermont-Ferrand, France).
"Tire comprising a durable stiffening structure and allowing proper flattening" was invented by Mathieu Vandaele (Clermont-Ferrand, France), Mathieu Girard (Clermont-Ferrand, France), Matthieu Bonnamour (Clermont-Ferrand, France), Stephane Callamand (Clermont-Ferrand, France), Alexandre Laval (Clermont-Ferrand, France), David Hernandez (Clermont-Ferrand, France), Julien Falempin (Clermont-Ferrand, France) and Antoine Filiol (Clermont-Ferrand, France).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The tire (10) has a stiffening structur...