ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,280,964, issued on April 22, was assigned to KHS GmbH (Dortmund, Germany).
"Method and device for grouping packages" was invented by Stefan Diesner (St. Leon-Rot, Germany), Stefan Helfrich (Heppenheim, Germany), Ralf Kretschmann (Monsheim, Germany), Adil Kuscu (Worms, Germany), Tobias Laubscher (Hochspeyer, Germany) and Christoph Wiesenack (Mainz, Germany).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method and device for grouping packages into specified package groups in an interference-free and fault-free manner with a conveyor having multiple individually actuatable conveyors arranged one behind the other with an inlet-side and a discharge-side end...