ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 18 -- United States Patent no. 12,473,154, issued on Nov. 18, was assigned to KRONES AG (Neutraubling, Germany).
"Device for transporting containers with spacing adaptation" was invented by Bruno Landler (Neutraubling, Germany) and Markus Schoenfelder (Neutraubling, Germany).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A device for transporting containers along a transport path having: a base chain with a plurality of chain links lined up in a row along the transport path and connected to one another in a correspondingly pivotable manner via chain joints, wherein the chain links are at least partly displaceable relative to one another in the direction of the transport path, so that the...