US Patent Issued to DEERE & Co. on July 1 for "Systems and methods for tensioning endless belts" (American, Indian Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,342,760, issued on July 1, was assigned to DEERE & COMPANY (Moline, Ill.).

"Systems and methods for tensioning endless belts" was invented by Shreyas P. Modak (Silvis, Ill.), Piyush Joshi (Pune, India) and Duane M. Bomleny (Geneseo, Ill.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An apparatus to adjust tension in an endless belt of an industrial machine may include a conveyor assembly, a tension system, an image sensor, and a controller. The controller may be operable to receive a first image from the image sensor; determine a position of a first raised feature of an endless belt of the conveyor assembly relative to a first groove formed in the first...