US Patent Issued to HYUNDAI MOTOR, KIA on March 3 for "Article loading apparatus and article loading method" (South Korean Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,565,385, issued on March 3, was assigned to HYUNDAI MOTOR COMPANY (Seoul, South Korea) and KIA Corp. (Seoul, South Korea).

"Article loading apparatus and article loading method" was invented by Dong Wook Lee (Ulsan, South Korea).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An article loading method includes a first transfer step of picking up at least some of a plurality of articles accommodated in a storage member and transferring the articles to an upper portion of a plate, a dropping step of dropping the plurality of articles, which is transferred to the upper portion of the plate in the first transfer step, onto the plate, a second transfer step of...