ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,258,053, issued on March 25, was assigned to Strothmann Machines & Handling GmbH (Schloss Holte-Stukenbrock, Germany).
"Rail conveyor element" was invented by Stefan Rehling (Buckeburg, Germany), Michael Bentrup (Steinhagen, Germany), Markus Ostendorf (Paderborn, Germany), Fabian Kuhlemann (Schlangen, Germany) and Tim Bullesbach (Werther, Germany).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Rail conveyor element which can be displaced on a rail system with intersecting rails, includes a base and a wheel-bearing cassette which supports the base and in which at least one wheel is accommodated to rest on a rail, the wheel-bearing cassette is rotatably m...