ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 11 -- United States Patent no. 12,466,669, issued on Nov. 11, was assigned to SYMBOTIC CANADA ULC (Canada).
"Tool and method for layer depalletizing" was invented by Sylvain-Paul Morency (Montreal), Marc Ducharme (Montreal), Robert Jodoin (Montreal), Tristan Pashley (Montreal), Francis Levesque (Montreal) and Jean-Francois Forget (Montreal).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The problem of potentially damaging a pallet layer that is gripped by clamps of a depalletizing tool is solved i) by detecting the real position of the layer using a pad on the tool that is movable with the clamps towards the pallet layer and whose detected stopping position determines the real position o...