ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,172,779, issued on Dec. 24, was assigned to LANTECH.COM LLC (Louisville, Ky.).
"Stretch wrapping machine with automatic load profiling" was invented by Patrick R. Lancaster III (Louisville, Ky.), Michael P. Mitchell (Louisville, Ky.) and Richard L. Johnson (LaGrange, Ky.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method, apparatus and program product perform automatic load profiling to optimize a wrapping operation performed with a stretch wrapping machine. Automatic load profiling may be performed, for example, to determine a density parameter for a load that is indicative of load stability such that one or more control parameters may be configur...