US Patent Issued to ANHEUSER-BUSCH INBEV on Oct. 27 for "Article picking and placing system" (Belgian, French Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 27 -- United States Patent no. 12,774,173, issued on Oct. 27, was assigned to ANHEUSER-BUSCH INBEV S.A. (Brussels).

"Article picking and placing system" was invented by Glenn Ferreira (Leuven, Belgium), Wim Dekocker (Leuven, Belgium), Philippe Jean Marie Duperray (Chateauroux, France), Manu Peelman (Hamme, Belgium), Tom Van Moer (Hamme, Belgium), Kristof Lambrechts (Hamme, Belgium), Frederik Triest (Hamme, Belgium) and David Rombaut (Hamme, Belgium).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present invention provides an article picking and placing system, the system comprising: -a first article picking tooling and a second article picking tooling, and an intermediate transportat...