ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 13 -- United States Patent no. 12,521,885, issued on Jan. 13, was assigned to KNAUF GIPS KG (Iphofen, Germany).
"Robotic wallboard dunnage placement system" was invented by Ronald Koval (Aurora, Ill.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system is provided for robotically placing dunnage strips for receiving wallboard panels, including providing a robot with a robot arm with a tool having at least one suction cup and a glue dispenser; presetting in the robot a plurality of dunnage location programs, each associated with a particular wallboard panel size or thickness; and providing a dunnage cube with a plurality of stacked dunnage strips. Upon the selection of a preset wallbo...