ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,698,593, issued on Aug. 4, was assigned to Valmet Technologies Inc. (Espoo, Finland).
"Belt" was invented by Vesa-Matti Riihioja (Tampere, Finland), Tuomas Suoranta (Tampere, Finland), Arsi Nikkinen (Jyvaskyla, Finland) and Janne Honkanen (Jyvaskyla, Finland).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A belt (10) for a fiber web machine has an inner surface (11) and an outer surface (12). A plurality of parallel dewatering grooves are arranged in a first direction (D1) on the outer surface (12) of the belt (10), each dewatering groove having a width. A first dewatering groove (21) has shallow portions (30) having a first depth (32), and deep portions ...