ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,623,860, issued on May 12, was assigned to Impact Automation Inc. (Columbia, Md.).
"Parcel distribution control" was invented by Stephen G. Wargo (Columbia, Md.), William G. Twigg (Columbia, Md.) and Jacob F. Twigg (Columbia, Md.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An automated parcel distribution system includes a plurality of operatively connected individual conveyor belts arranged in zones; a set of sensors arranged on lateral sides of the conveyor belts and at the boundaries between adjacent conveyor belts; and a processor configured to adjust the speed of individual conveyor belts based on sensor data to evenly distribute parcels on the c...