US Patent Issued on Jan. 20 for "Method and apparatus for erecting cartons and for order fulfilment and packing" (Canadian Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 20 -- United States Patent no. 12,528,265, issued on Jan. 20.

"Method and apparatus for erecting cartons and for order fulfilment and packing" was invented by H. J. Paul Langen (Brampton, Canada).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system and method of packing an order. A first sequence of bins corresponding to orders is transported on a first conveyor to a packing station. A case for each order is constructed by a case forming system, the case forming system able to construct cases from blanks of various sizes. The cases are transported from the case construction apparatus to the packing station in a second sequence, wherein the sequential order of the cases corresponds to ...