ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,259,035, issued on March 25, was assigned to Caterpillar Paving Products Inc. (Brooklyn Park, Minn.).
"Drive belt wear indication" was invented by Craig Hedstrom (Mounds View, Minn.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A belt drive for a work machine is disclosed. The belt drive has a drive belt that is wound around an input pulley and an out put pulley. The input pulley is rotated by a motor, and when rotated, transfers rotational motion to the output pulley by the drive belt. A controller is in communication with an input speed sensor that measures the input pulley and an output speed sensor that measures the output pulley. The controller c...