ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,338,083, issued on June 24, was assigned to ANHEUSER-BUSCH INBEV S.A. (Brussels).

"System for handling individual primary packaging containers" was invented by Wim Dekocker (Leuven, Belgium), Marcelo Petramale (Leuven, Belgium), Glenn Ferreira (Leuven, Belgium) and Philippe Jean Marie Duperray (Chateauroux, France).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A primary container handling system comprising a transportation unit transporting at least one container handling unit (108) mounted on at least one independently motion controlled mover or levitating tile (106), said container handling unit being configured to provide 3-dimensional translation an...