US Patent Issued to KHS on Oct. 20 for "Device and method for handling and/or grouping piece goods" (German Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,767,454, issued on Oct. 20, was assigned to KHS GmbH (Dortmund, Germany).

"Device and method for handling and/or grouping piece goods" was invented by Stefan Habermann (Weiler, Germany) and Alexander Mann (Eckelsheim, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A device for handling and/or grouping piece goods having a handling table extending along a main axis with a manipulation zone and a collection zone disposed one behind the other along the main axis in a transport direction. A first manipulator manipulates the piece goods and is designed to be movable at least partly in the direction of the main axis with variable positions. The first ...