US Patent Issued to Vanderlande Logistics on Sept. 8 for "Method and system for identifying anomalies during operation of a conveyor system, in particular of an airport luggage carousel" (German Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 8 -- United States Patent no. 12,729,069, issued on Sept. 8, was assigned to Vanderlande Logistics GmbH (Nuremberg, Germany).

"Method and system for identifying anomalies during operation of a conveyor system, in particular of an airport luggage carousel" was invented by Frank Konig (Bochum, Germany) and Bengt Mueck (Nuremberg, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Airport luggage carousels are usually operated in a run-to-failure approach that necessarily leads to failures. Anomalies are detected during operation of a conveyor system having a revolving drive chain, a drive unit and a conveyor belt. The drive chain serves to transmit force and motion from a drive unit ...