US Patent Issued to TRUMPF Maschinen Austria on Oct. 7 for "Method for the transport and/or handling of components" (Austrian Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 8 -- United States Patent no. 12,434,291, issued on Oct. 7, was assigned to TRUMPF Maschinen Austria GmbH & Co. KG (Pasching, Austria).

"Method for the transport and/or handling of components" was invented by Gerhard Angerer (Altenberg, Austria), Klemens Freudenthaler (Linz, Austria), Florian Hausmann (Traun, Austria), Matthias Hoerl (Linz, Austria), Nenad Kovjenic (Linz, Austria), Florian Maier (Leonding, Austria), Michael Schernhammer (Leonding, Austria), Verena Steininger (Linz, Austria) and Helmut Theis (Pfarrkirchen, Austria).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method transports and/or handles components, in particular sheet metal parts, and a production plant includes ...