US Patent Issued to Rockit Global on Dec. 9 for "Packaging" (New Zealander, American Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,492,025, issued on Dec. 9, was assigned to Rockit Global Ltd. (Hamilton, New Zealand).

"Packaging" was invented by Andrew Vernon Fowler (Hamilton, New Zealand), Ryan Douglas Tasma (Saltillo, Miss.) and Shane Timothy Daly (Hamilton, New Zealand).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An end effector adapted to be carried by a robot positioning apparatus for packing items of produce, the end effector adapted in use for holding an open topped elongate container (tube) in an inverted orientation, wherein the tube has a closed bottom end and an open top end; the end effector comprising: at least one actuatable movable element located on the end effecto...