ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,715,697, issued on Aug. 25, was assigned to Kyowa Europe GmbH (Leichlingen, Germany) and Industrial Software (Sofia, Bulgaria).

"Conveyor system, motor-roller controller and method for operating a conveyor system" was invented by Dimitar Ivanov Petrov (Sofia, Bulgaria), Nikola Aleksandrov Yankov (Sofia, Bulgaria), Dimitar Hristov Suvandzhiev (Sofia, Bulgaria), Ivan Dimitrov Petrov (Sofia, Bulgaria), Kazuya Ichieda (Miki City, Japan) and Georg Malina (Dusseldorf, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Method for operating a motor-roller controller wherein a first value indicative of an amperage at an input power port of a first motor-roll...