ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,534,253, issued on Jan. 27, was assigned to Storopack Hans Reichenecker GmbH (Metzingen, Germany).
"Padding station, padding system, and method" was invented by Michael Spicker (Kempen, Germany).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method comprises determining sensor information which is associated with a shipping box pre-packed with at least one shipping product, the determined sensor information characterizing a position of each unused space within the shipping box; conveying the shipping box out of an inlet segment and into a padding segment; providing a plurality of padding items of different types and/or sizes in a dispensing segment acc...