ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,617,622, issued on May 5, was assigned to Intelligrated Headquarters LLC (Mason, Ohio).

"Conveyor assembly and method of using the same" was invented by Venkatesh Raikar (Charlotte, N.C.), Saravanan Sadasivan (Charlotte, N.C.) and Sourabh Painjane (Charlotte, N.C.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Various embodiments are directed to a conveyor assembly and method of using the same. In various embodiments, a conveyor assembly comprises a plurality of rollers configured to facilitate transportation of an object on a conveyor surface, the plurality of rollers comprising a first drive roller operable to rotate in a first rotational direction to c...