US Patent Issued to United States Postal Service on June 24 for "Systems and methods for high throughput sorting" (Virginia Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,337,354, issued on June 24, was assigned to United States Postal Service (Washington).

"Systems and methods for high throughput sorting" was invented by Scott R. Bombaugh (Burke, Va.), Tuan A. Le (Fairfax, Va.), Charles P. McLellan (Fairfax, Va.) and Christopher M. Stratton (Springfield, Va.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A high throughput sorting device is disclosed. The device includes a first sorter and a second sorter, each of the first and second sorters having a plurality of cells each configured to support, carry, and deposit an item. The device can also include at least one shared chute extending below a portion of the first sort...