ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,297,000, issued on May 13, was assigned to Berkshire Grey Operating Co. Inc. (Bedford, Mass.).

"Automated processing of container assembly systems and methods" was invented by Samuel Naseef (Medford, Mass.), Jeffrey Kittredge (Lexington, Mass.), Joshua Best (Cambridge, Mass.), Abhishek Kaluri (Beverly, Mass.) and Emmanuel Bisse (Chelsea, Mass.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A container assembly processing system is disclosed that includes a container lifting assembly for lifting a container vertically from a carrier on a conveyor system."

The patent was filed on Oct. 14, 2022, under Application No. 17/966,231.

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