ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 31 -- United States Patent no. 12,509,279, issued on Dec. 30, was assigned to Laitram LLC (Harahan, La.).
"Sortation into volume-adjustable containers" was invented by Mark Costanzo (New Orleans), Bryant G. Ragan (Metairie, La.), Christopher Alan Brupbacher (New Orleans) and Destin Jacob Bailey (Marrero, La.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A sorting conveyor system sorting parcels into volume-adjustable containers with movable floors and an associated method for adjusting the depth of the container's interior volume. The containers are mounted on carts and have movable floors that are raised and lowered to decrease and increase the depth of the container's interior volume...