US Patent Issued to Rocky Mountain Investor Holdings on June 23 for "Conveyor with directional fold" (Colorado, South Dakota, Texas Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,662,323, issued on June 23, was assigned to Rocky Mountain Investor Holdings Inc. (Centennial, Colo.).

"Conveyor with directional fold" was invented by Daniel R. Pattillo (Englewood, Colo.), Marcus Dacar (Whitewood, S.D.) and Wes Cornell (Richmond, Texas).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A foldable conveyor has a static conveyor housing section and a foldable conveyor housing section. The static conveyor housing section includes a substantially horizontal portion and an inclined portion, and the foldable conveyor housing section is selectively rotatable between an operational configuration and a transportation configuration. In the operatio...