ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,662,328, issued on June 23.
"System and method for automatically grouping tumbled bricks" was invented by Francisco Pain Solano (Igualada, Spain).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "System and method for automatically grouping tumbled bricks, comprising: a brick feeding unit feeding rows of an even number of longitudinally spaced tumbled bricks with a featured side randomly positioned; a detection unit detecting the featured side of each tumbled brick; a pairing unit comprising a rotating device for each tumbled brick rotating each tumbled brick a preset angle in response of the detected position of the featured side, forming pairs of tumbled ...