ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,258,218, issued on March 25, was assigned to Intelligrated Headquarters LLC (Mason, Ohio).
"Taper convertible motorized conveyor rollers" was invented by Abhishek Kolay (Howrah, India), Ravi Kumar Avupati (Hyderabad, India) and Saravanan Sadasivan (Bangalore, India).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Apparatuses, methods, and systems comprising reconfigurable motorized conveyor rollers are provided. The example reconfigurable motorized conveyor roller includes a housing with a first end and a second end opposite to the first end. The housing includes a plurality of curved plates that at least partially form a cylindrical tube. The reconfigur...