US Patent Issued to Gebhardt Fordertechnik on June 17 for "Centering station and method for handling at least one load carrier" (German, Austrian Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,330,883, issued on June 17, was assigned to Gebhardt Fordertechnik GmbH (Sinsheim, Germany).

"Centering station and method for handling at least one load carrier" was invented by Fabian Branner (Waibstadt, Germany), Gunther Napetschnig (Hohenems, Austria) and Marco Gebhardt (Sinsheim, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A centering station may be used for correcting a position of a load carrier on a channel vehicle. A centering station may comprise a centering channel extending along a longitudinal direction, the centering channel comprising at least one running rail for the channel vehicle running in the longitudinal direction and at...