ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,396,465, issued on Aug. 26, was assigned to Georgia Tech Research Corp. (Atlanta).

"Systems and methods for rotating products during processing" was invented by Comas Haynes (Atlanta), Aklilu G. Giorges (Atlanta), Saikamal Srinivas (Atlanta) and Sean L. Thomas (Atlanta).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An exemplary embodiment of the present disclosure provides a system for rotating a product during processing comprising a shackle system comprising a trolley, a rotator, and a rotating shackle and a track wherein the trolley is coupled to the track and configured to undergo translational motion along the track causing the shackle system to mo...