ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,378,031, issued on Aug. 5, was assigned to DYCO Inc. (Bloomsburg, Pa.).

"Apparatus and method for debagging article arrays" was invented by Peter D. Yohe (Bloomsburg, Pa.) and Ronald H. Cordingly (Berwick, Pa.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system for removing a packing material of an article array including a staging area for receiving the article array packaged with the packing material, a transport device configured to transport the article array in a length direction extending from a first end to a second end of the system, a first cutter configured to cut the packing material in a direction perpendicular with respect to the length ...