US Patent Issued to MULTIVAC SEPP HAGGENMUELLER on Dec. 9 for "Method for positioning an article to be transported and device for carrying out the method" (German Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,492,081, issued on Dec. 9, was assigned to MULTIVAC SEPP HAGGENMUELLER SE & Co. KG (Wolfertschwenden, Germany).

"Method for positioning an article to be transported and device for carrying out the method" was invented by Christian Arend (Memmingen, Germany) and Tom Stachel (Kempten, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for positioning an article in a slicing machine having a discharge unit includes detecting actual position of the article on the discharge unit by an optical unit data-connected with a control of the slicing machine, automatically comparing the actual position with a predetermined target position by the control, ...