US Patent Issued to OPEX on March 3 for "Method and apparatus for processing envelopes containing contents" (New Jersey Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,565,392, issued on March 3, was assigned to OPEX Corp. (Moorestown, N.J.).

"Method and apparatus for processing envelopes containing contents" was invented by John Allen (Moorestown, N.J.), Robert DeWitt (Moorestown, N.J.) and Joseph Valinsky (Moorestown, N.J.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method and apparatus for processing mail is provided. A feeder serially feeds envelope from a stack of mail. Two cutters at a cutting station cuts one or two edges of the envelopes. As the envelopes travel from the feeder to the cutters the envelope is jogged on two edges to justify the contents with the envelopes. Additionally, an improved feeder i...