ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,779,841, issued on Nov. 3, was assigned to SPGPRINTS AUSTRIA GMBH (Langkampfen, Austria).

"Method and system for determining a position of a conveyor belt" was invented by Peter Welten (Boxmeer, Netherlands), Josef Juffinger (Thiersee, Austria) and Michael Pokerschnig (Itter, Austria).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The invention relates to a printing machine for printing a material. The printing machine comprises a conveyor belt, an optical sensor and an evaluation unit. The conveyor belt is movable in a feed direction along a feed path. The conveyor belt comprises a plurality of portions along the feed direction over the feed path. The op...