ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,534,308, issued on Jan. 27, was assigned to LANFRANCHI S.R.L. (Collecchio, Italy).
"Rearranging device" was invented by Mario Lanfranchi (Collecchio, Italy).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A rearranging device for rearranging products is adapted to pick up the products from a supply area where they are randomly arranged and arrange them in a predefined way on a receiving area. The rearranging device includes viewing means to detect the orientation of the product and a control unit for processing the detected data and activating movement means adapted to pick up the product from the supply area. Depending on what is detected by the viewing ...