ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 29 -- United States Patent no. 12,208,586, issued on Jan. 28, was assigned to Habasit AG (Reinach, Switzerland).
"Conveyor belt, in particular spindle tape, with ultrasound or laser cut lateral sides" was invented by Maren Joswig (Blauen, Switzerland).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A conveyor belt, power transmission belt or machine tape (1) being open-ended with two ending edges (6, 7) and with a longitudinal length (L) in a longitudinal direction, comprising: a) two parallel lateral edges (1a, 1b) running in said longitudinal direction, and being spaced apart from each other by a transversal width (W); b) a first textile layer (2); c) a first coating layer (3); and opti...