US Patent Issued to Gates on June 3 for "Drive belts including foamed undercord layers and methods of manufacturing the same" (Michigan, Missouri, Colorado Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 4 -- United States Patent no. 12,320,405, issued on June 3, was assigned to Gates Corp. (Denver).

"Drive belts including foamed undercord layers and methods of manufacturing the same" was invented by Tae Hee Cheong (Troy, Mich.), Charles F. Ochoa (Columbia, Mo.), Douglas G. Gerring (Denver) and Kyle Spring (Denver).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A drive belt includes an undercord layer having a first region proximate a backing layer surface of the undercord layer and a second region proximate the exterior surface of the undercord layer, the first region being foamed and the second region either being foamed to a lesser extent than the first region or not being foamed. The...