US Patent Issued to FERAG on May 26 for "Order picking system" (Swiss Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,639,666, issued on May 26, was assigned to FERAG AG (Hinwil, Switzerland).

"Order picking system" was invented by Marcel Ramseier (Hinwil, Switzerland), Simon Guhl (Hinwil, Switzerland) and Roberto Fenile (Hinwil, Switzerland).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An order picking system (1) for transporting and providing general cargo (S, S') and associated method includes a feeding device (2) with a suspension conveyor (21) for feeding the general cargo (S, S'), and a delivery station (22) for delivering the general cargo (S, S') from the suspension conveyor (2.1) to a transfer device (3) for grouping the conveyed general cargo (S, S'), which t...