US Patent Issued on July 14 for "Workpiece loader assembly" (Illinois Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 14 -- United States Patent no. 12,678,909, issued on July 14.

"Workpiece loader assembly" was invented by Evan D. Boldt (Naperville, Ill.), Eliot Stepka (Plainfield, Ill.), Jim Moscato (Woodridge, Ill.) and Rich Ebner (Yorkville, Ill.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Various embodiments of loader assemblies are disclosed for controlling the translational and rotational movement of a workpiece. One or more pairs of offset compound wheels are configured to support and control a workpiece. In one configuration, a left-handed mecanum wheel is paired with an offset right-handed mecanum wheel. By rotating offset compound wheels independently of each other, the workpiece can be m...