ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,601,648, issued on April 14, was assigned to Caterpillar Paving Products Inc. (Brooklyn Park, Minn.).
"Belt tension measurement system" was invented by Jacob J. McAlpine (Ostego, Minn.), John Lee Marsolek (Watertown, Minn.), Jeremy Wayne Lee (Ostego, Minn.) and Matthew Thomas Hanson (St. Louis Park, Minn.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A cold planer includes a conveyor system having a conveyor belt, a frame, and a roller rotatably coupled to the frame, a motor coupled to the conveyor belt and configured to drive the conveyor belt, a tension screw coupled between the roller and the frame, a tension sensor configured to measure the tensio...