ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,479,230, issued on Nov. 25, was assigned to HUNKELER AG (Wikon, Switzerland).
"Sorting device for sorting book blocks" was invented by Erwin Mahler (Geuensee, Switzerland) and Patrick Faes (Zofingen, Switzerland).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A sorting device for sorting book blocks is described, the sorting device having a filling station for sorting one or more book blocks into receptacles, a first input conveyor configured to feed book blocks to the filling station, a second input conveyor configured to feed empty receptacles to the filling station, a first output conveyor configured to transfer full receptacles away from the filling ...