ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,734,630, issued on Sept. 15, was assigned to CHIRON Group SE (Tuttlingen, Germany).
"Combined transfer and storage device and manufacturing line for machining" was invented by Samuel Vuadens (Finhaut, Switzerland), Dylan Maret (Martigny, Switzerland), Blaise Mettan (Evionnaz, Switzerland) and Mathieu Cheseaux (Saillon, Switzerland).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A combined transfer and storage device for machining includes a storage level, a transfer device, at least one machining interface, and a feeding interface. The storage level has two or more storages that are spaced apart from one another in a longitudinal direction and storage s...