ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,662,326, issued on June 23, was assigned to CMTE DEVELOPMENT Ltd. (Pinjarra Hills, Australia).
"Conveyor belt condition monitoring system and method" was invented by Jose David Apolo Cando (Pinjarra Hills, Australia) and Karsten Hoehn (Pinjarra Hills, Australia).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method of monitoring a conveyor belt state, the method including the steps of: (a) monitoring the acoustic emissions from a conveyor belt using an optical waveguide interrogator, the optical waveguide interrogator outputting a series of data bins representing the temporal evolution of the acoustic emissions received along the optical waveguide; and...