ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,780,554, issued on Nov. 3, was assigned to YANGZHOU WELDON TRANSMISSION EQUIPMENT Co. LTD (Yangzhou, China).

"Spiral mesh chain conveyor" was invented by Baodong Wu (Yangzhou, China).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The provided is a spiral mesh chain conveyor, including a rotary drum and mesh chains, where the mesh chains enter a periphery of the rotary drum along a tangential direction and extend along a spiral line in a winding manner; a plurality of rotary drum upright posts and a plurality of driving vertical rods are uniformly arranged along a circumference of the rotary drum; an inner side of each link of the mesh chain close to the r...