ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,552,041, issued on Feb. 17, was assigned to Knapp AG (Hart bei Graz, Austria).
"System for separating and identifying articles" was invented by Christian Steinbauer (Hart bei Graz, Austria), Franz Mathi (Hart bei Graz, Austria), Wolfgang Puntigam (Hart bei Graz, Austria) and Marc Pendl (Hart bei Graz, Austria).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system configured to separate and identify articles, and the system including a manipulation unit configured to move articles from the source position in the direction of the discharging conveyor element, and the manipulation unit is configured to pick up the articles from the source position accordi...