US Patent Issued to Cryovac on June 30 for "Systems and methods for lifting deformable objects" (North Carolina, South Carolina Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,667,982, issued on June 30, was assigned to Cryovac LLC (Charlotte, N.C.).

"Systems and methods for lifting deformable objects" was invented by Bradley Keith Powell (York, S.C.) and Roger Jeffrey Anderson (Mooresville, N.C.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system for lifting a deformable object includes a support structure, two pairs of opposing arms coupled to the support structure, and a fluid power driver operatively coupled in parallel to the pairs of opposing arms via a fluid power system. Each of the arms includes inclined surfaces configured to contact the deformable object. When the support structure is positioned above the defor...