ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 8 -- United States Patent no. 12,435,775, issued on Oct. 7, was assigned to Liftwave Inc. (Somerville, Mass.).
"Self-reeling belt drive" was invented by Blake Sessions (Boston) and Toomas Sepp (Somerville, Mass.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present disclosure involves a belt drive mechanism which can be used to pay out or draw belt to or from a belt actuated system (or belt driven system). The mechanism features a self-winding spool which can automatically wind or unwind portions of the belt as they are withdrawn from, or fed to the belt actuated system. A second rotational axle (idler shaft), with one or more sheaves (e.g., pulley's or rollers) can be rotationally...