ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,352,333, issued on July 8, was assigned to Gates Corp. (Denver).
"Toothed power transmission belt with back fabric" was invented by Min Gao (Jiangsu, China), Nigel Peter Blunsden (Dumfries, Great Britain), Guogong Chen (Kunshan, China) and Shawn Xiang Wu (Rochester Hills, Mich.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A toothed power transmission belt with a smooth back side surface has a back jacket on the back side surface; wherein the back jacket comprises a closed-mesh, knit fabric tube. The fabric tube may be knitted on a circular weft knitting machine and may be heat set after knitting. The fabric tube may be treated with an epoxy, RFL or oth...