US Patent Issued to ContiTech Transportbandsysteme on April 7 for "Topographical monitoring of conveyor belt surface and root cause determination" (German, American, Portuguese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 7 -- United States Patent no. 12,595,134, issued on April 7, was assigned to ContiTech Transportbandsysteme GmbH (Hannover, Germany).

"Topographical monitoring of conveyor belt surface and root cause determination" was invented by Jack Bruce Wallace (Powell, Ohio), Jacques Frederick Basson (Braga, Portugal), Patrick Raffler (Duderstadt, Germany), Gregor Hadasch (Wollbrandshausen, Germany) and Atrayee Neog (Hamburg, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system for monitoring conveyor belts includes an emitter, a sensor and electronic circuitry. The emitter is configured to emit light at the surface of a conveyor belt. The sensor is configured to measure the light refl...