US Patent Issued to Signode Industrial Group on Jan. 27 for "Case-handling system with independently movable flap-suppressing devices" (Pennsylvania Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,533,864, issued on Jan. 27, was assigned to Signode Industrial Group LLC (Tampa, Fla.).

"Case-handling system with independently movable flap-suppressing devices" was invented by Bryce J. Fox (Honesdale, Pa.) and Robert Thane Rickard (Waymart, Pa.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Various embodiments provide a case-handling system including multiple flap-suppressing devices that can be vertically moved independently of one another to, when processing a case, enable the case-handling system to prepare for and receive the next case to-be-processed while the case-handling system is still folding the upper major flaps of the current case, which...