US Patent Issued on July 21 for "Gantry system for enabling bin movement in a delivery vehicle" (Michigan Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,686,317, issued on July 21.

"Gantry system for enabling bin movement in a delivery vehicle" was invented by Yifan Chen (Ann Arbor, Mich.), Kurt Michael Lundeen (Novi, Mich.), Sam Hoff (Hazel Park, Mich.), Smruti Panigrahi (Novi, Mich.), Kevin Hwang (Northville, Mich.) and Timothy Mark Feldkamp (Ann Arbor, Mich.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A delivery vehicle having a base and a bin engagement unit is disclosed. The base may be configured to secure a plurality of bins. Each bin may include a plurality of sidewalls, and each sidewall may include an interior surface and an exterior surface. The bin engagement unit may be configured to mov...