ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,378,081, issued on Aug. 5, was assigned to IMMOBILIARE METALPROGETTI S.R.L. (Perugia, Italy).
"Apparatus for moving and sorting articles" was invented by Enrico Maria Santicchi (Perugia, Italy).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An apparatus for moving and sorting articles between a plurality of destination stations including at least one hooking member, configured to accommodate hanging, or hooking by a hanger, the articles to be sorted, and on which there are defined a plurality of hooking sectors which follow each other in succession on the hooking member, wherein each hooking sector is associated to a specific destination station to which ...