ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,606,367, issued on April 21, was assigned to ABB Schweiz AG (Baden, Switzerland).
"Apparatus and method for handling twistlocks" was invented by Ye Tian (Shanghai) and Jiafan Zhang (Shanghai).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An apparatus and a method for handling twistlocks configured to lock a container onto a vehicle. The apparatus includes a gripper configured to grip one of the twistlocks to be mounted onto or dismounted from a corner fitting of a container. Further, the apparatus has a visual sensor configured to capture a first image of the corner fitting when the vehicle is moving in a twistlock handling station. The apparatus inclu...