US Patent Issued to Berkshire Grey Operating on Jan. 27 for "Systems and methods for separating objects using drop conveyors with one or more object processing systems" (Massachusetts, Georgia, Rhode Island, Pennsylvania Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,536,394, issued on Jan. 27, was assigned to Berkshire Grey Operating Co. Inc. (Bedford, Mass.).

"Systems and methods for separating objects using drop conveyors with one or more object processing systems" was invented by Thomas Wagner (Concord, Mass.), Matthew T. Mason (Atlanta), Christopher Geyer (Arlington, Mass.), John Richard Amend Jr. (Arlington, Mass.), Kyle Maroney (Saunderstown, R.I.), Joseph Romano (Arlington, Mass.), Victoria Hinchey (Winchester, Mass.), Jeffrey Kittredge (Lexington, Mass.), Andrew Gauthier (Melrose, Mass.), Lakshman Kumar (Billerica, Mass.) and Prasanna Velagapudi (Pittsburgh).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A d...