ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,286,303, issued on April 29, was assigned to Frans Bakker Beheer B.V. (Losser, Netherlands).
"Conveyor belt and device for locking a rod to a link of such a conveyor belt" was invented by Willem Van Faassen (Hengelo, Netherlands).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Provided is a conveyor belt including at least two parallel chains each including a plurality of consecutive links; and a plurality of rods extending between the at least two parallel chains for linking the consecutive links. Each rod extends with each end through the corresponding chain linking two consecutive links to each other. One of the two consecutive links is at least axially...