ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,378,074, issued on Aug. 5, was assigned to DWFritz Automation LLC (Wilsonville, Ore.).
"Tray exchange and dispositioning systems, methods, and apparatuses" was invented by Adam Quinn Miller (Wilsonville, Ore.), Thomas Wayne Tipton (Wilsonville, Ore.), Robert D. Batten (Wilsonville, Ore.), Mark Laurin Baker (Wilsonville, Ore.) and Roy Daniel Garoutte (Wilsonville, Ore.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A tray handler for transporting a tray into or out from a selectable position within a tray stack stowed in the tray handler has an unload station to stow a tray during a sort procedure, a tray elevator configured to vertically transport the tr...