ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,286,318, issued on April 29, was assigned to ANHEUSER-BUSCH INBEV S.A. (Brussels).
"Denesting apparatus" was invented by Philippe Jean Marie Duperray (Chateauroux, France) and Wim Dekocker (Leuven, Belgium).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present invention provides a denesting apparatus (100, 200), the apparatus comprising: *-one or more closed loop conveying tracks (130, 230), each closed loop conveying track comprising a plurality of sets of one or more de-stacking means (140, 240) movingly configured thereon through one or more de-stacking means moving mechanism (150, 250): *-one or more stacking magazines (120, 220), each adapted to...