US Patent Issued to Thielen Automation on May 6 for "Method for operating a gripping device for separating laundry items from a laundry pile" (German Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 10 -- United States Patent no. 12,291,815, issued on May 6, was assigned to Thielen Automation GmbH (Badem, Germany).

"Method for operating a gripping device for separating laundry items from a laundry pile" was invented by Bernd Thielen (Oberkail, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method operates a gripping device for separating laundry items from a laundry pile. The gripping device has a suction nozzle unit for suctioning a laundry item lying on the pile that has a nozzle assembly with at least one nozzle and a device for generating a vacuum at the suction nozzle unit opening. The gripping device has gripping elements, which are closed in cooperation so that the...