US Patent Issued to FERAG on Oct. 20 for "Take-over appliance for a sorting facility and a sorting facility" (Swiss Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,767,456, issued on Oct. 20, was assigned to FERAG AG (Hinwil, Switzerland).

"Take-over appliance for a sorting facility and a sorting facility" was invented by Martin Ruge (Hinwil, Switzerland).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A take-over appliance for a sorting facility for taking over piece goods which at a delivery location are delivered from a sorting conveyor, including a buffer device which forms a storage space, for the intermediate storing or buffering of delivered piece goods, wherein the storage space of the buffer device can be changed during the operation of the sorting facility. The buffer device includes a flexible, two-dimens...