US Patent Issued to Dematic Logistics on Oct. 7 for "Method for operating a conveyor for successive goods, and corresponding conveyor system" (German Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 8 -- United States Patent no. 12,434,916, issued on Oct. 7, was assigned to Dematic Logistics GmbH (Heusenstamm, Germany).

"Method for operating a conveyor for successive goods, and corresponding conveyor system" was invented by Lars Zeidlewicz (Emsdetten, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for operating an overhead conveyor for successive goods is disclosed, in which the goods are loaded onto the overhead conveyor one by one by means of an inward transfer means and are transferred outward at a predefined point of the overhead conveyor by means of a switch, the distance between successive goods on the overhead conveyor either being minimised if said successi...