ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 10 -- United States Patent no. 12,409,961, issued on Sept. 9, was assigned to Van Doren Sales Inc. (East Wenatchee, Wash.).
"Tray insertion system and method" was invented by Jason Skerlong (Wenatchee, Wash.), Luke Divis (Brewster, Wash.), Adam Goff (Wenatchee, Wash.), Scott Wilson (Wenatchee, Wash.), John Sheehan (Yakima, Wash.), Joshua Silver (Wenatchee, Wash.) and Lance Webb (East Wenatchee, Wash.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An apparatus for packing a plurality of filled produce trays into a transport container, such as a box or a carton, without bruising the produce in the process. The produce packing system includes an infeed belt, produce information sensors an...