US Patent Issued to Amazon Technologies on Feb. 18 for "Method and apparatus for diverting and/or folding articles" (Belgian Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,227,381, issued on Feb. 18, was assigned to Amazon Technologies Inc. (Seattle).

"Method and apparatus for diverting and/or folding articles" was invented by Jef Jonckers (Hamme, Belgium), Manu Peelman (Hamme, Belgium), Tom Van Moer (Hamme, Belgium), Philip Corens (Hamme, Belgium) and Hilde Cloostermans (Hamme, Belgium).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An apparatus for diverting and/or folding articles includes an infeed conveyor, an outfeed conveyor, and a diverter. The diverter is a non-contact, fluid emitting diverter, configured to emit a fluid jet to exhibit the diverting force on the impact zone of the article at a side of the article ...