ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,492,077, issued on Dec. 9, was assigned to Agilent Technologies Inc. (Santa Clara, Calif.).
"System and method for variable size container handling" was invented by Oussama Rawas (Santa Clara, Calif.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "In some examples, a system may include at least two conveyors disposed at a specified distance apart and movable toward each other to reduce the specified distance or away from each other to increase the specified distance. The at least two conveyors may be operable to move a container that is contiguously disposable between the at least two conveyors along a first direction when the at least two conveyors are o...