ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,275,848, issued on April 15, was assigned to ContiTech Deutschland GmbH (Hannover, Germany).
"Belt using high performance cost-effective elastomeric material" was invented by Matthew Smith (Mooresville, N.C.) and Thomas George Burrowes (North Canton, Ohio).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A belt body has an outer surface and an inner facing toothed surface and includes or is comprised of an elastomeric composition; and tensile members. The elastomeric composition including: from about 50 to 90 parts per hundred rubber of a zinc diacrylate modified hydrogenated acrylonitrile-butadiene rubber, and/or an unmodified hydrogenated acrylonitrile-bu...