ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,378,080, issued on Aug. 5, was assigned to Lawrence Equipment Inc. (South El Monte, Calif.).
"Continuous conveyor belt" was invented by Eric Clay Lawrence (Hungtington Beach, Calif.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Methods, systems, and apparatus, including computer programs encoded on computer storage media, for using a continuous conveyor belt. One of the systems includes a conveyor belt adapted to move a plurality of comestibles and having i) a first edge, ii) a second edge opposite the first edge, iii) a first row of apertures that is substantially parallel to the first edge, and iv) a second row of apertures that is substantially paral...