US Patent Issued to Southworth International Group on July 22 for "Container unloading apparatus and method for controlling the same" (Maine Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 23 -- United States Patent no. 12,365,553, issued on July 22, was assigned to Southworth International Group Inc. (Falmouth, Maine).

"Container unloading apparatus and method for controlling the same" was invented by Scott Stoddard (Gorham, Maine), Emmanuel Marsh-Sachs (Sidney, Maine) and Jonathan Graeme Robertson (Biddeford, Maine).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An apparatus for emptying the contents of a container. The apparatus may include a base and a lift coupled to the base and movable between a loading position and emptying position. In some embodiments, the apparatus may include a lift actuator including a lift piston configured to move the lift from the loading p...