ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 2 -- United States Patent no. 12,642,276, issued on June 2, 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: "Systems and methods for rotating a product during processing including a shackle system including a trolley, a rotator, and a rotating shackle and a track. The trolley is coupled to the track and configured to undergo translational motion along the track causing the shackle system to move along the track. The rotator is configured to undergo ro...