US Patent Issued to COMPAGNIE GENERALE DES ETABLISSEMENTS MICHELIN on Oct. 6 for "Bicycle tire optimized for electric assistance" (French Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,752,576, issued on Oct. 6, was assigned to COMPAGNIE GENERALE DES ETABLISSEMENTS MICHELIN (Clermont-Ferrand, France).

"Bicycle tire optimized for electric assistance" was invented by Yves Potin (Clermont-Ferrand Cedex, France) and Guillaume Hennebert (Clermont-Ferrand Cedex, France).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A tire (1) for an electrically assisted bicycle or wheelchair having tire a crown reinforcement, which is radially on the inside of a tread, with the tread being connected to two beads via two sidewalls. The tire has, on at least one of the sidewalls (3) and protruding from the sidewall, a strip (4) of a rubber compound with an ax...