US Patent Issued to Becton Dickinson Rowa Germany on May 13 for "Picking device for storing medicine bottles and method for retrieval" (German Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,297,043, issued on May 13, was assigned to Becton Dickinson Rowa Germany GmbH (Kelberg, Germany).

"Picking device for storing medicine bottles and method for retrieval" was invented by Christoph Hellenbrand (Kaifenheim, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A picking device for storing bottles and a corresponding method are provided. The picking device includes a storage locations for bottles, a control device and an operating device having a gripper with two prongs, the operating device displaceable adjacent the storage location in first and second directions. The control device causes the operating device to lift a bottle from the sto...