ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,371,269, issued on July 29, was assigned to ContiTech Deutschland GmbH (Hannover, Germany).
"Center tracking dual synchronous belt system" was invented by Jacob Kaplan (Omaha, Neb.), Christopher Ganshert (Lincoln, Neb.) and Ben Roberts (Lincoln, Neb.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Synchronous belt systems include two or more sprockets, a first endless belt, and a second endless belt. The belts are connected together with belts attachment hardware through belt ports, and a belts gap is defined between the belts. Each of the sprockets includes sprocket teeth and sprocket tooth spaces between adjacent teeth of the sprocket teeth, and each o...