US Patent Issued to COLORADO CONVEYORS on Oct. 27 for "Conveyor component monitoring" (Australian Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 27 -- United States Patent no. 12,774,170, issued on Oct. 27, was assigned to COLORADO CONVEYORS INC. (Breckenridge, Colo.).

"Conveyor component monitoring" was invented by Luis Fernando Flores Guerrero (Victoria Park, Australia), Raymond John Anderson (Hillarys, Australia), Bart Daniel Morris (Woodbridge, Australia), Muhammad Musabb Alam Afridi (Kensington, Australia) and Ronald Hapgood-Strickland (Duncraig, Australia).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A conveyor roller includes a monitoring/sensing device that includes a sensor, a processor, an identification device, and a transmitter. The sensor is configured to sense at least one characteristic of the conveyor roller and...