ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,539,995, issued on Feb. 3, was assigned to AFA TECHNOLOGIES SDN. BHD. (Melaka, Malaysia).

"System and method for automated handling of elastically compressible articles" was invented by Ching Khang Tan (Melaka, Malaysia) and Ching Fooh Tan (Melaka, Malaysia).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The embodiments of the present invention pertain to the broad technical domain of automation, with a specific focus on in-line processing of elastically compressible articles. More precisely, the present invention relates to a system and method for automated handling of elastically compressible article such as picking/stripping, stacking, counting, and pa...