ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,583,682, issued on March 24, was assigned to INTERROLL HOLDING AG (Sant'antonino, Switzerland).
"Conveyor arrangement" was invented by Xavier Frangeul (La Roche-sur-Yon, France) and Antoine Loizeau (La Roche-sur-yon, France).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Conveyor arrangement (1), comprising a conveying section (11) having a plurality of rollers (22) on which a conveyable object (9), in particular a pallet, can be conveyed, a mobile drive (30), wherein the mobile drive is movable along different positions along the conveying section (11) and the mobile drive is adapted to temporarily provide a drive power to a selected roller (22) depend...