ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 23 -- United States Patent no. 12,503,314, issued on Dec. 23, was assigned to Intelligrated Headquarters LLC (Mason, Ohio).

"Reconfigurable motorized conveyor roller and method of using the same" was invented by Ravi Kumar Avupati (Hyderabad, India), Saravanan Sadasivan (Bangalore, India) and Abhishek Kolay (Howrah, India).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Various embodiments are directed to reconfigurable motorized conveyor rollers and methods of using the same. In various embodiments, a reconfigurable motorized conveyor roller comprises a housing assembly defining a roller width defined between a first lateral end and a second lateral end opposite the first lateral end; an...