ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,246,933, issued on March 11, was assigned to AUTEFA SOLUTIONS GERMANY GMBH (Friedberg, Germany).
"Stacking apparatus and stacking method" was invented by Rudolf Kuhn (NeusaB, Germany) and Peter Knobloch (Gersthofen, Germany).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A stacking apparatus and method for product layers, it loads each of the product layers in a box-like and stackable slip-on container, open at the bottom, and stores the product layer with this container in a container stack, and/or removes product layers in slip-on containers from a container stack and unloads the individual product layer from the slip-on container. A handling apparatu...