US Patent Issued to Gates on May 27 for "Drive belts including foamed undercord layers and methods of manufacturing the same" (Michigan, Missouri, Colorado Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,313,145, issued on May 27, 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.), Thomas S. Moss III (Denver), 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 a foamed undercord layer having void spaces located throughout the foamed undercord layer. The void spaces extend from a backing layer of the undercord layer to an exterior surface of the backing layer, and may include some void spaces at the exterior surface that are open to the...