ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,535,129, issued on Jan. 27, was assigned to AKTIEBOLAGET SKF (Gothenburg, Sweden) and SKF MAGNETIC MECHATRONICS (Saint-Marcel, France).
"Transmission belt" was invented by Lakdar Sadi-Haddad (Nogent sur Marne, France), Josue Saury (Saint-Marcel, France), Lloyd Brown (Singapore) and David Beggs (Antipolo, Philippines).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A transmission belt includes a belt member, and at least one sensor attached to the belt member that is configured to measure a parameter indicative of a state of the transmission belt. A transmitter is attached to the belt member and configured to transmit a signal indicative of the state of th...