ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,252,347, issued on March 18, was assigned to Dematic GmbH (Heusenstamm, Germany).
"Profile connector for a hanging conveyor system" was invented by Thomas Peiser (Gratwein-StraBengel, Austria) and Andreas Tinnacher (Voitsberg, Austria).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A connection adapter for a connection of profile segments of a rail profile in a conveying device for conveying hanging objects. The connection adapter has, on its inside, a running surface for the mounting of holding adapters mounted such as on rollers, where the running surface is disposed in an inclined manner with respect to a profile extension direction of the connection...