US Patent Issued to Laitram on July 28 for "Zone-actuated inline dual-stacked roller belt conveyor" (Maryland, Louisiana Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,692,083, issued on July 28, was assigned to Laitram LLC (Harahan, La.).

"Zone-actuated inline dual-stacked roller belt conveyor" was invented by Matthew L. Fourney (Laurel, Md.), Joseph F. Kovacs (New Orleans), Angela Longo Marshall (Harahan, La.), John E. Wenzel (Madisonville, La.), Christopher B. Spicer (Silver Spring, Md.), James L. Brun (Forest Hill, Md.), Gilbert J. MacLachlan (Harahan, La.), Richard M. Klein (Slidell, La.) and David W. Bogle (Franklinton, La.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A belt conveyor comprising a conveyor belt having upper and lower inline rollers arranged in a stack and selectively actuated to rotate. When ac...