US Patent Issued to Liftwave on Aug. 5 for "Normalizing tension distribution and minimizing sidewall abrasion within angular drive belt systems" (Massachusetts Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,379,017, issued on Aug. 5, was assigned to Liftwave Inc. (Somerville, Mass.).

"Normalizing tension distribution and minimizing sidewall abrasion within angular drive belt systems" was invented by Blake Sessions (Boston).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "This disclosure relates to methods and apparatuses of employing belts for an angular drive. A twisted geometry is applied to a first free span of the belt. A sheave supports the first free span of the belt at a first extremity of the first free span and sheave is at least one of positioning and orienting the rotating sheave or the driven sheave so as to misalign a geometric centerline of the f...