ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,234,104, issued on Feb. 25, was assigned to Advanced Farm Technologies Inc. (Davis, Calif.).
"Item de-binning systems and methods" was invented by Evan Long (San Luis Obispo, Calif.), Zachary Pascual (Sacramento, Calif.), Charles Johnstone (Davis, Calif.) and Cedric Jeanty (Davis, Calif.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems and methods capable of transferring items from a bin are described. A de-binning system includes an item transfer apparatus including a transfer conveyor configured to move a conveyor belt surface, and a bin sub-frame coupled to the transfer conveyor and configured to receive a bin. While an item-containing bin is s...