US Patent Issued to Illinois Tool Works on Feb. 10 for "Method and apparatus for grouping and/or separating products transported in rows" (German Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 11 -- United States Patent no. 12,545,526, issued on Feb. 10, was assigned to Illinois Tool Works Inc. (Glenview, Ill.).

"Method and apparatus for grouping and/or separating products transported in rows" was invented by Linus Wohle (Schapen, Germany) and Tobias Van Dulmen (Lunne, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for grouping and/or separating products transported in rows. With the aid of a first conveyor belt, the products to be grouped or separated are conveyed onto a second conveyor belt connected in series with the first conveyor belt until a downstream product of the products to be grouped or separated runs up against a dividing web of a dividing devic...