US Patent Issued to Illinois Tool Works on Sept. 29 for "Automatic lane adjustment system" (South Carolina Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,747,109, issued on Sept. 29, was assigned to Illinois Tool Works Inc. (Glenview, Ill.).

"Automatic lane adjustment system" was invented by J. Mark Nunn (Simpsonville, S.C.), Joshua Corneroli (Greer, S.C.) and John Paul Laskis (Simpsonville, S.C.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system, method and apparatus for adjusting lanes in a conveyor system including a conveyor having opposing outer side walls and a plurality of uprights along the side walls and two or more lane dividers positioned between the side walls. One or more rails are positioned between opposite uprights and a scissor mechanism is positioned along the rails and connected ...