ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,258,226, issued on March 25, was assigned to AUTEFA SOLUTIONS GERMANY GMBH (Friedber, Germany).
"Stacking device and stacking method" was invented by Robert Hiesch (Augsburg, Germany).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A stacking device (8), handling plant and method for goods (2) in the form of layers of goods, includes a loading station (10) for feeding and/or removal of layers of goods (3), a stacking station (9) for the arrangement of a stack of containers, which include a mobile stack carrier (7) and inverted containers (4) that are stacked on the stack carrier, are open at the bottom and can be stacked on top of one another. A handling...