ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 11 -- United States Patent no. 12,466,070, issued on Nov. 11, was assigned to ATS Corp. (Cambridge, Canada).
"Automated O-ring processing stations and related methods" was invented by Kenneth Wayne Nicholson (Smiths Falls, Canada), Philip David Munroe (Yarker, Canada), James Mark McLean (Kingston, Canada), Robert James Macgregor (Odessa, Canada), David Andrew Tait (Kingston, Canada), Gustavo Barea (Cambridge, Canada) and Roger Craig Hogan (Maryhill, Canada).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An O-ring processing station for an automated mass production system includes: (a) at least one feed device operable to control discharge of O-rings from an output end of the feed device;...