ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,371,275, issued on July 29, was assigned to Australian Conveyor Components Pty Ltd (Maleny, Australia).

"Conveyor belt cleaning apparatus" was invented by Lawrence Harvey Robinson (Maleny, Australia).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A blade mounting assembly for a conveyor belt cleaning assembly comprises a blade mount member for mounting a scraper blade; a connection portion; a resilient member disposed between the blade mount member and the connection portion; and a single adjustment member to couple the blade mounting assembly to a base member of the cleaning assembly and enable rotational movement of the blade mounting assembly about th...