US Patent Issued to Laitram on Sept. 8 for "Modular conveyor belt with dedicated access module" (American, Dutch, Polish Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 8 -- United States Patent no. 12,729,066, issued on Sept. 8, was assigned to Laitram LLC (Harahan, La.).

"Modular conveyor belt with dedicated access module" was invented by Gilbert J. MacLachlan (Harahan, La.), Angela Longo Marshall (Harahan, La.), Kevin W. Guernsey (Destin, Fla.), Benson Hall (Harahan, La.), Matthew Vulpetti (Metairie, La.), Jonathan J. Bishop (Amite, La.), Jacob Govert Vermeiden (Zwolle, Netherlands) and Andrzej Jacek Gonera (Lodz, Poland).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A dedicated access module inserted between standard conveyor belt modules in a conveyor belt forms a dedicated opening and closing point for the conveyor belt. The dedicated access mod...