US Patent Issued to Martin Engineering on March 4 for "Conveyor belt thickness measurement systems and methods for detecting changes in conveyor belt thicknesses" (Brazilian, American Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,240,706, issued on March 4, was assigned to Martin Engineering Co. (Neponset, Ill.).

"Conveyor belt thickness measurement systems and methods for detecting changes in conveyor belt thicknesses" was invented by Italo Andrade (Belo Horizonte, Brazil), Henrique Canaverde (Belo Horizonte, Brazil), Luiz Machado (Belo Horizonte, Brazil) and Paul Harrison (Kewanee, Ill.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method includes emitting a laser including a plurality of laser points onto a surface of a conveyor belt, capturing a plurality of first images of the surface of the conveyor belt during a first cycle of the conveyor belt, creating a first three-...