ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,275,606, issued on April 15, was assigned to Niagara Bottling LLC (Diamond Bar, Calif.).
"Facility layout" was invented by Andrew Dimitri Peykoff Sr. (Newport Coast, Calif.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A facility including a loading dock having a plurality of dock doors to accommodate vehicles or trailers for loading pallets, a staging area located proximate to the loading dock, and a plurality of loading zones. The staging area includes a plurality of staging lanes of finished products. Each staging lane is stocked with the finished products from the facility. Each of the plurality of loading zones includes a subset of the plurality of...