US Patent Issued to Krones on Feb. 25 for "Transport device and method for distributing a plurality of similarly shaped and dimensioned articles" (German Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,234,101, issued on Feb. 25, was assigned to Krones AG (Neutraubling, Germany).

"Transport device and method for distributing a plurality of similarly shaped and dimensioned articles" was invented by Thomas Hensel (Aying, Germany), Martin Bauer (Nussdorf am Inn, Germany), Herbert Spindler (Niedermoosen, Germany), Juergen Werner (Bruckmuehl, Germany) and Marcus Seidl (Kienberg, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The invention relates to a transport device (1) and a method for distributing a plurality of similarly shaped and dimensioned articles (10). The transport device (1) comprises an infeed (2) for conveying articles (10) in a mass...