ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,576,436, issued on March 17, was assigned to Morgan Engineering Systems Inc. (Alliance, Ohio).
"Method and apparatus for vertical roll storage" was invented by Mark Len Fedor (Hartville, Ohio), Steve D. Herron (Salem, Ohio), Kenneth Dean Maurer (Canton, Ohio), Jay Allen May (Canton, Ohio), Michael B. Fagan II (Alliance, Ohio), Scott A Zilke (Berlin Center, Ohio) and Keith Allen Mathews (V, Ohio).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An assembly, system and method for compensating a crane position offset error based on wheel float by viewing, with an optical sensor located on a trolley on the crane, a target or target shape adjacent a storage ra...