ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 10 -- United States Patent no. 12,292,272, issued on May 6, was assigned to VMI HOLLAND B.V. (Epe, Netherlands).
"System and method for conveying a tire component" was invented by Mattheus Jacobus Kaagman (Epe, Netherlands), Quinten Matthijs Bergmans (Epe, Netherlands) and Herman Sebastiaan Scherpenhuizen (Epe, Netherlands).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system and a method for conveying a tire component includes a conveyor and a measuring unit, wherein the measuring unit has a field of view, wherein the measuring unit is positioned relative to the conveyor such that the field of view overlaps with a measuring slot in the conveyor for measuring height values in said fie...