ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,350,716, issued on July 8, was assigned to G.D SOCIETA' PER AZIONI (Bologna, Italy).

"Method and system of feeding groups of products to a processing unit" was invented by Luca Lanzarini (Bologna, Italy), Gilberto Spirito (Bologna, Italy) and Michele Ferrari (Bologna, Italy).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method and system of feeding groups of products to a processing unit includes: a tray with a plurality of housings to receive one single product; a conveyor to move the tray along a feeding path; a transfer device to transfer a group of products from respective housings to the processing unit; and an organizing device upstream of the tr...