US Patent Issued to TYROLON on May 13 for "Gripping device for gripping, retaining and guiding containers, and transporting apparatus having such a gripping device" (Austrian Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,297,055, issued on May 13, was assigned to TYROLON GMBH (Osterreich, Austria).

"Gripping device for gripping, retaining and guiding containers, and transporting apparatus having such a gripping device" was invented by Ludwig Schulnig (St. Jakob in Haus, Austria), Elmar Schulnig (St. Jakob in Haus, Austria) and Peter Mayer (Hochfilzen, Austria).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A gripping device for gripping, holding and guiding containers, in particular bottle-like containers. The gripping device including at least one gripper arm pair having a first gripper arm as well as an oppositely designed second gripper arm, wherein both gripper arms ...