ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 2 -- United States Patent no. 12,486,118, issued on Dec. 2, was assigned to Moutai Institute (Zunyi, China).
"Transport equipment with cleaning capabilities" was invented by Yaxi Liu (Zunyi, China).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A transport equipment with cleaning capabilities includes a support rack having rotatably conveying rollers; a conveyor belt arranged around the conveyor rollers and driven thereby for conveying; and a cleaning mechanism integrally arranged on one side of the support rack. During a single operational cycle of circulative conveying, the cleaning mechanism performs repeated and alternate cleaning actions and scraping actions on the conveyor belt sim...