ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 18 -- United States Patent no. 12,325,552, issued on June 10, was assigned to SABIC GLOBAL TECHNOLOGIES B.V. (Bergen op Zoom, Netherlands).
"Plastic pallet with removable elastomer footpads" was invented by Ratnesh Khandelwal (Bangalore, India), Raghavendra Janiwarad (Bangalore, India) and Abdul Rahim Ahamed Arafath (Riyadh, Saudi Arabia).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Disclosed is a transport system (100), including: a pallet (110), formed from plastic, wherein the pallet extends heightwise from a pallet top deck (130) to a pallet bottom deck (140) to define a pallet height, lengthwise from a pallet forward end (160) to a pallet aft end (170) to define a pallet length, a...