ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 2 -- United States Patent no. 12,485,983, issued on Dec. 2, was assigned to ABB Schweiz AG (Baden, Switzerland).
"Production line, trolley and processing method" was invented by Jose Rodrigues (Bad Homburg, Germany).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A production line for processing a workpiece in successive steps comprises a plurality of workstations, each of which is adapted for carrying out therein an associated one of said steps, and conveyor means for conveying the workpiece from one of said workstations to a successive one. At least the last one of said steps is a step of painting the workpiece. At least two workstations associated to steps immediately succeeding each o...