ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,534,303, issued on Jan. 27, was assigned to Dematic Corp. (Grand Rapids, Mich.).
"Sound attenuated conveyor roller assembly" was invented by Eric Ahlquist (Belding, Mich.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A sound attenuated conveyor roller assembly reduces the noise or vibration produced by the conveyor roller assembly during operation, and includes a conveyor roller having a cylindrical portion to which a sound damper may be coupled. The conveyor roller may include an unreduced outer surface and a reduced outer surface, in which the sound damper is disposed at the reduced outer surface such that an outer surface of the damper and the unred...