US Patent Issued to BUHLER on Nov. 11 for "Apparatus and process for the temporary storage of piece good stacks in a system for producing food products" (British, German Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 11 -- United States Patent no. 12,466,664, issued on Nov. 11, was assigned to BUHLER GMBH (Reichshof, Germany).

"Apparatus and process for the temporary storage of piece good stacks in a system for producing food products" was invented by Achim Klein (Iserlohn, Germany), Kay Hauschulz (Sankt Augustin, Germany), Mark Knapp (York, Great Britain), Stephen Chapman (York, Great Britain) and Sean Knight (Newcastle, Great Britain).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A device and method for temporarily storing stacks of piece goods which are provided in a clocked manner at a transfer point integrated in the device or adjacent to the device of a system for producing food products, in p...