ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,275,596, issued on April 15, was assigned to PIP INNOVATIONS B.V. (Bergen, Netherlands).
"Alignment conveyor" was invented by Bart Kroef (Bergen, Netherlands).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A passive alignment conveyor suitable for elongated bodies including at least one piece of material including an indentation in an alignment direction as an alignment lane, which alignment lane includes at least one slot in the alignment lane in an angle to the alignment direction, at least one means for optical detection, at least one electronic circuit-based control device, wherein least one movable knife mounted shifted from the means for optical det...