US Patent Issued to Heidelberger Druckmaschinen on July 1 for "Method of moving a stack of products by use of a robot" (German Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,344,495, issued on July 1, was assigned to Heidelberger Druckmaschinen AG (Heidelberg, Germany).

"Method of moving a stack of products by use of a robot" was invented by Herbert Ackermann (Ludwigsburg, Germany), Udo Ganter (Freiberg am Neckar, Germany), Martin Haupt-Terlau (Erdmannhausen, Germany), Joachim Krumma (Pleidelsheim, Germany) and Gerhard Lubberger (Steinheim, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for moving a stack of products by a robot. The robot has an articulated arm and at least one gripper disposed on the articulated arm for gripping the stack of products. The stack of products is turned, before being moved by t...