ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,304,228, issued on May 20, was assigned to Kornit Digital Ltd. (Rosh HaAyin, Israel).
"Garment gripper" was invented by Ilan Shmuel Mano (Ramat-Gan, Israel), Alon Polakevich (Pardes Hanna, Israel) and Yogev Aloni (Rosh HaAyin, Israel).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A garment feeder for feeding a garment for printing, comprises a loading position for a pallet and robotic grippers movable across the loading position to grip a garment from a first side of the loading position and pull the garment in a garment pull direction to a second side of the loading position to load the garment onto the pallet in the loading position. The garment being...