US Patent Issued to WID GROUP on June 24 for "Device for sorting a container, and associated facility and method" (French Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,337,352, issued on June 24, was assigned to WID GROUP (Bernay, France).

"Device for sorting a container, and associated facility and method" was invented by Alexandre Jean Antoine Mongrenier (Manneville-sur-Risle, France) and Benoit Eric Sudre (Bordeaux, France).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A device is for sorting a container for a conveyor. The container includes an electronic chip storing at least one data item relating to the container or to the chip. The conveyor is capable of driving the container and has a first and a second path. The sorting device includes a chip reader configured to read the stored data, which can be referred t...