US Patent Issued to KRONES on Dec. 30 for "Device for transporting containers and method for operating the device" (German Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 31 -- United States Patent no. 12,509,308, issued on Dec. 30, was assigned to KRONES AG (Neutraubling, Germany).

"Device for transporting containers and method for operating the device" was invented by Christian Depner (Silberstedt, Germany), Jens Luecke (Flensburg, Germany) and Niels Clausen (Dollerup, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The disclosure relates to a device for transporting containers, having: at least one first conveyor belt whose transport surface encloses a first angle with a plane perpendicular to the direction of action of gravity, the first transport surface extending in the transverse direction, containers being transportable in a first or in a ...