ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 23 -- United States Patent no. 12,503,312, issued on Dec. 23, was assigned to KNAPP AG (Hart bei Graz, Austria).
"Central belt system and method for picking articles" was invented by Klaus Uller (Hart bei Graz, Austria) and Franz Mathi (Hart bei Graz, Austria).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method and a central belt system for order-picking articles into order packages transported with a container conveyor, having a central belt which has a conveying direction toward the container conveyor, with the central belt having first and second belt areas in the transverse direction to the conveying direction, and having first and second article chutes associated with the first ...