US Patent Issued to G.D on May 20 for "Grouping device and method for grouping discrete rows of articles into a continuous row of articles" (Italian Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,304,748, issued on May 20, was assigned to G.D S.P.A. (Bologna, Italy).

"Grouping device and method for grouping discrete rows of articles into a continuous row of articles" was invented by Luca Borderi (Bologna, Italy), Gianluca Parisini (Bologna, Italy) and Antonio Gigante (Bologna, Italy).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A grouping device includes a feeding device with a plurality of elongated transport elements to support at least one of discrete rows of articles to be grouped and defining a respective seat in which an open or openable longitudinal end is defined. The grouping device further includes a pusher device to contact a discret...