ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,378,097, issued on Aug. 5, was assigned to Beltways Inc. (Cincinnati).
"Variable speed moving walkway systems" was invented by Edip Yuksel (Cincinnati).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A variable speed moving walkway system has a plurality of walkway modules, each having at least one movable belt, wherein each of the plurality of walkway modules are positioned at least one of: immediately linearly adjacent or immediately laterally adjacent to another. The movable belt of each walkway module moves at a different speed from the belt of an immediately linearly adjacent and/or an immediately laterally adjacent walkway module. A transition betwee...