US Patent Issued to The Yokohama Rubber on Oct. 20 for "System and method for operation management of conveyor belt" (Japanese Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,767,451, issued on Oct. 20, was assigned to The Yokohama Rubber Co. Ltd. (Kanagawa, Japan).

"System and method for operation management of conveyor belt" was invented by Yusuke Ishibashi (Hiratsuka, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system and a method for operation management of a conveyor belt capable of accurately determining an operational state of the conveyor belt while having a simple configuration. A detector disposed at a predetermined detection position of a conveyor device transmits a transmission radio wave toward an IC tag of a passive type installed at a conveyor belt. A computation device calculates a running speed of...