ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,226,865, issued on Feb. 18, was assigned to BAVIUS TECHNOLOGIE GMBH (Baienfurt, Germany).

"Device for swivelling, turning and changing workpiece pallets, as well as a horizontal machining center" was invented by Werner Zell (Eberhardzell, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "In a device for manipulating workpiece pallets, with two parallel pivot arms, each of which can each be fitted with a pallet carrier, each of which is swivelled by a motor and a swivel gear about a substantially horizontal swivel axis, with each pallet carrier on the swivel arm being able to be turned parallel to the other pallet carrier by a motor and a gear about...