US Patent Issued to Deutsche Post on May 5 for "Unloading device" (British Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,617,636, issued on May 5, was assigned to Deutsche Post AG (Bonn, Germany).

"Unloading device" was invented by Redland Sanders (Solihull, Great Britain).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An unloading device for unloading a tote from a shelf in a warehouse includes at least two arms for grabbing the tote in the shelf, whereby the arms essentially each extend in a horizontal direction and are arranged distant and parallel to each other. The arms are movable in a vertical and/or horizontal direction in respect to a position of the tote in the shelf and in their horizontal distance to each other in respect to the shape of the tote. Additionally, e...