US Patent Issued to Gebhardt Foerdertechnik, Koerber Supply Chain on Sept. 30 for "Sorting conveyor and conveying cart for a sorting conveyor" (German Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,428,239, issued on Sept. 30, was assigned to Gebhardt Foerdertechnik GmbH (Sinsheim, Germany) and Koerber Supply Chain GmbH (Bad Nauheim, Germany).

"Sorting conveyor and conveying cart for a sorting conveyor" was invented by Halit Demir (Sinsheim, Germany) and Marco Gebhardt (Sinsheim, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A sorting conveyor, which may be a cross-belt sorter, comprises a basic structure, a guide element arranged on the basic structure, and at least one conveying cart configured to be conveyed along the guide element of the sorting conveyor in a conveying direction. The sorting conveyor further includes a measuring devi...