US Patent Issued to ATS on March 25 for "Automated O-ring processing stations and related methods" (Canadian Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,257,724, issued on March 25, was assigned to ATS Corp. (Cambridge, Canada).

"Automated O-ring processing stations and related methods" was invented by Kenneth Wayne Nicholson (Cambridge, Canada), Philip David Munroe (Cambridge, Canada), James Mark McLean (Cambridge, Canada), Robert James MacGregor (Cambridge, Canada), David Andrew Tait (Cambridge, Canada), Gustavo Barea (Cambridge, Canada) and Roger Craig Hogan (Cambridge, Canada).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Processing O-rings in an automated mass production system includes advancing an O-ring retainer toward a loading position in alignment with an output end of a feed device, dischar...