ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,304,680, issued on May 20.
"System and method for automatically packaging an item" was invented by Timothy Alan Talda (Renton, Wash.) and John Michael Moran (West Linn, Ore.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system, apparatus, and method for automatically packaging one or more articles is disclosed. The system, apparatus, and method processes incoming articles having different and/or similar shapes and in random orientations for packaging. The system, apparatus, and method form shipping-ready customized packages, based, at least in part, on data associated with an individual article and gathered by a detecting device as the individual art...