US Patent Issued to OPEX on July 28 for "Material handling apparatus for delivering or retrieving items" (New Jersey Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,691,470, issued on July 28, was assigned to OPEX Corp. (Moorestown, N.J.).

"Material handling apparatus for delivering or retrieving items" was invented by George Hayduchok (Mount Holly, N.J.) and Robert R. DeWitt (Marlton, N.J.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method and apparatus are provided for sorting or retrieving items to/from a plurality of destinations areas. The items are loaded onto one of a plurality of independently controlled delivery vehicles. The delivery vehicles follow a path to/from the destination areas, which are positioned along the path. Once at the appropriate destination area, an item is transferred between the d...