US Patent Issued to GRAM EQUIPMENT on June 30 for "Plate aligner" (Danish Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,668,434, issued on June 30, was assigned to GRAM EQUIPMENT A/S (Kolding, Denmark).

"Plate aligner" was invented by Jan Kjaer Larsen (Sdr. Stenderup, Denmark).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method and arrangement for aligning plates is provided. The plates are arranged substantially end to end and have a first and second side, the sides being parallel and arranged on opposite sides, and a front and rear side, where the sides delimit a plate area. During transport, the rear side of a first plate is adjacent the front side of a subsequent plate. The plates have a propelling means along the first side for engaging and propelling the plates ...