US Patent Issued to KONECRANES GLOBAL on Sept. 8 for "Container handling system" (Finnish Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 8 -- United States Patent no. 12,729,078, issued on Sept. 8, was assigned to KONECRANES GLOBAL Corp. (Hyvinkaa, Finland).

"Container handling system" was invented by Ville Mannari (Hyvinkaa, Finland), Ilkka Leppanen (Hyvinkaa, Finland) and Tero Jaakkola (Hyvinkaa, Finland).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A container handling system, comprising a container crane configured to move a container between a container yard and a loading/unloading zone, the loading/unloading zone is configured to receive a transport vehicle for transporting the container. The loading/unloading zone further comprises a protective structure configured to cover a predetermined section of the loading...