ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 20 -- United States Patent no. 12,391,494, issued on Aug. 19, was assigned to TRAPO AG (Gescher-Hochmoor, Germany).
"Loading system for loading and unloading trucks" was invented by Erik Mollmann (Rhede, Germany), Tobias Niehaves (Bocholt, Germany), Volker Kugel (Beckum, Germany), Stefan Kurtenbach (Schermbeck, Germany) and Jascha Paris (Munster, Germany).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A loading system for loading and unloading cargo compartments of trucks includes chain conveyors positioned parallel or substantially parallel to one another and such that standard pallets can be moved back and forth on the chain conveyors in a conveying direction. An autonomous conveyor ve...