US Patent Issued to Target Brands on April 22 for "Depalletization systems and methods" (Minnesota Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,280,969, issued on April 22, was assigned to Target Brands Inc. (Minneapolis).

"Depalletization systems and methods" was invented by Ernesto Saldana Pena (Minneapolis), Gervasio Mutarelli (Minneapolis), Dillon Shirley (Minneapolis) and Joseph Goodwin (Minneapolis).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Warehouse automation and methods of handling materials can be used to make depalletization processes more safe and efficient. In some examples, the depalletization systems can include a U-shaped platform lift that supports one or more workers and that defines a location for a pallet of boxes to be unloaded or "depalletized." The U-shaped platform li...