ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,384,127, issued on Aug. 12, was assigned to Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co. Ltd. (Hsinchu, Taiwan).
"Box erecting apparatus and method" was invented by Szu-Chen Huang (Hsinchu, Taiwan), Po-Hsien Chiu (Hsinchu, Taiwan), Mao-Jung Chiu (Hsinchu, Taiwan), Mao-Shun Lien (Hsinchu, Taiwan) and Fu-Hsien Li (Hsinchu, Taiwan).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An apparatus and method for expanding a box blank into a box, the apparatus comprising an arm assembly, a controller, a camera and a box blank conveyor. The arm assembly includes a folding arm having a position in a first direction and a rotational angle controlled by the controller based ...