US Patent Issued to MacLeon Mallard on July 21 for "Method and apparatus for building palleted goods" (Illinois Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,686,572, issued on July 21, was assigned to MacLeon 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 provi...