US Patent Issued to Howe & Howe on Sept. 15 for "Tracked vehicle tensioning" (Maine Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,735,128, issued on Sept. 15, was assigned to Howe & Howe Inc. (Waterboro, Maine).

"Tracked vehicle tensioning" was invented by Forrest Joel Tripp (East Waterboro, Maine), Anthony Victor Castro (Cape Elizabeth, Maine) and William Edward McMaster (Lebanon, Maine).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A track tensioning mechanism and method includes a bracket assembly coupled to an axle of a tensioner wheel configured to engage a track to be tensioned. The bracket assembly has its own axle, which is configured to rotatably engage with a body of the vehicle. The axle of the bracket assembly is laterally offset from the axle of the tensioner wheel, ...