US Patent Issued to Laitram on Aug. 25 for "Dynamic sorting of items in a conveyor system" (Maryland Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,715,712, issued on Aug. 25, was assigned to Laitram LLC (Harahan, La.).

"Dynamic sorting of items in a conveyor system" was invented by Matthew L. Fourney (Laurel, Md.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A sorting system for dynamically sorting items includes movable receptacles that can receive sorted items from a sorting conveyor on the fly. A controller determines and coordinates the movement between the sorted items and the movable receptacle, so that sorted items land in the movable receptacle while the receptacle is moving. A queue of receptacles alongside a sorting conveyor and extending into an overflow region can dynamically move, co...