ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 23 -- United States Patent no. 12,420,435, issued on Sept. 23, was assigned to Syntegon Technology GmbH (Waiblingen, Germany).
"Conveying device" was invented by Matthias Schwandt (Wallhausen, Germany), Johannes Bauerle (Obersontheim, Germany) and Sebastian Gran (Crailsheim, Germany).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A conveying device includes a first drive body, a second drive body and a lifting body for receiving a payload. The drive bodies can be activated independently of each other along a conveying axis or on a conveying plane. A first lifting link is pivotably articulated to the first drive body and a second lifting link is pivotably articulated to the second drive ...