ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,240,648, issued on March 4, was assigned to G.D SOCIETA' PER AZIONI (Bologna, Italy).
"Feeding unit for a manufacturing machine and related feeding method" was invented by Paolo Degliesposti (Bologna, Italy), Fabio Gaudenzi (Bologna, Italy) and Luca Lanzarini (Bologna, Italy).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A feeding unit which is configured to feed articles from a pick-up station to a delivery station. The feeding unit comprises: a gripping head provided with at least one gripping means and attached to a shaft. The shaft is configured to translate along the rotation axis between a lowered position, in which the articles are picked up and ...