ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 11 -- United States Patent no. 12,467,516, issued on Nov. 11, was assigned to Mitsuboshi Belting Ltd. (Kobe, Japan).
"Toothed belt" was invented by Susumu Osaki (Hyogo, Japan) and Yusuke Hemmi (Hyogo, Japan).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A toothed belt including a reinforcing layer with 0.05 mm to 0.2 mm thickness buried along a contour of tooth portions such that a maximum height from a bottom portion of the tooth portion to the reinforcing layer is in a range of 30% to 100% of a height from the bottom portion to a tooth tip, in which the reinforcing layer includes reinforcing fiber filaments arranged in a belt circumferential direction, in the reinforcing layer, a weig...