ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,304,754, issued on May 20, was assigned to MacLean Mallard LLC (Mundelein, Ill.).
"Method and apparatus for building palleted goods" was invented by Scott Garriott (Sterling, Ill.), Anthony Wade (Prophetstown, Ill.) and Charles R. Gorman (Prophetstown, Ill.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A pallet build system and method for building custom palleted built order of goods (e.g. mixed SKU/rainbow pallets) is provided. The system comprises forward lanes for stock goods as a supply of goods used for building custom orders of goods on pallets in reverse lanes. Lanes have gravitational feed conveyors. Remote control from a lift vehicle is provid...