ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,450,770, issued on Oct. 21, was assigned to Grupo Bimbo S.A.B. de CV (Santa Fe, Mexico).
"Intelligent article orientation" was invented by Joel Sanchez (Arlington, Texas), Florencio Vega Patino (Arlington, Texas), Jesus Aguirre (Fort Worth, Texas) and Arturo Ignacio Torija (Grand Prairie, Texas).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system may include an article stream. Variable-appearance articles within the stream may have various orientation states. In some cases, to support later processing, articles may be transitioned from anomalous orientations into one or more nominal orientations which are later processing ready. In some cases, determ...