US Patent Issued to B & B Metals on March 17 for "Tie plate collection and deposit machine" (Kentucky Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,577,736, issued on March 17, was assigned to B & B Metals Inc. (Shepherdsville, Ky.).

"Tie plate collection and deposit machine" was invented by Coty T. Coots (Shepherdsville, Ky.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A tie plate collection and deposit machine collects tie plates from a railway and sorts the tie plates sequentially. The sorted tie plates are then deposited on the railway for re-installation during the maintenance procedure being performed."

The patent was filed on Oct. 3, 2022, under Application No. 17/937,645.

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