US Patent Issued to A. G. Stacker on March 31 for "Load forming system shiftable between automatic and worker-assisted configurations" (Virginia Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 31 -- United States Patent no. 12,589,954, issued on March 31, was assigned to A. G. Stacker Inc. (Weyers Cave, Va.).

"Load forming system shiftable between automatic and worker-assisted configurations" was invented by Randall Donn Senger (Mount Sidney, Va.), Jerry Blosser (Crimora, Va.) and Eric Stempihar (Rockingham, Va.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A load forming system includes a feed conveyor, a load former, a transfer platform and a shifter having a contact body and an actuator for moving the contact body toward and away from the load former to shift objects from the transfer platform onto the load former. The shifter has an enabled state in which the actuator c...