ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,275,588, issued on April 15, was assigned to NEWTEQ HOLDING B.V. (Breda, Netherlands).
"Automated warehouse systems, assemblies, apparatuses, and methods for assembling mixed pallets and facilitating order picking" was invented by Hans Eil (Soest, Netherlands).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "This disclosure is directed to automated warehouse facilities that are configured to assemble mixed pallets. The warehouse facilities can include one or more layer handling devices that are configured to remove layers from pallets in a delayering operational mode, and to add layers to pallets in a palletizing operation mode. The warehouse facilities als...