US Patent Issued to Arctic Cat on July 29 for "Adjustable belt drive assembly, system and method" (Canadian, American Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,371,126, issued on July 29, was assigned to Arctic Cat Inc. (Thief River Falls, Minn.).

"Adjustable belt drive assembly, system and method" was invented by Samuel James Sandoz (Thief River Falls, Minn.), Jacob Tyler Crosby (Oklee, Minn.) and Todd MacDonald (Balderson, Canada).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A belt housing assembly includes a first shaft with a first bearing that is mounted in a fixed bearing retainer and a second shaft with a second bearing mounted in a rotatable eccentric bearing retainer. A center of the second bearing is offset from a center of the eccentric bearing retainer. A distance between the first shaft and the s...