ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,251,784, issued on March 18, was assigned to DECKEL MAHO Pfronten GmbH (Pfronten, Germany).

"Transport device for transporting one or more handling devices" was invented by Alfred Geissler (Pfronten, Germany), Michael Trenkle (Pfronten, Germany) and Sebastian Riedel (Eisenberg, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present invention relates to a transport device (100) for transporting one or more handling devices, each for handling a pallet (300) and/or a workpiece (1) on a machine tool (1000) which is set up on a base surface for machining the workpiece (1), wherein the transport device (100) is freely movable on the base surface ...