ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,577,006, issued on March 17, was assigned to SANOVO TECHNOLOGY NETHERLANDS B.V. (Aalten, Netherlands).

"Egg conveyor assembly" was invented by Yannik Vince Jansen (Doetinchem, Netherlands), Johannis Cornelis Arie De Korte (Renkum, Netherlands) and Jan Hordijk (Aalten, Netherlands).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An egg conveyor assembly (1) comprises a first conveyor (4) having a first conveyor direction (X), a second conveyor (5) extending in a second conveyor direction (Y) transverse to the first conveyor direction (X) and a transfer device (6) arranged between the first conveyor and the second conveyor. The transfer device includes a t...