ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,767,437, issued on Oct. 20, was assigned to SOMIC VERPACKUNGSMASCHINEN GMBH & Co. KG (Amerang, Germany).

"Storage arrangement" was invented by Christoph Kogel (Prutting, Germany), Norbert Eder (Traunstein, Germany) and Johann Hartl (Rohrdorf, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The invention relates to a storage arrangement for storing movers of a conveying device formed in magnetic levitation technology, comprising a storage device having a plurality of storage levels arranged one above the other in the height direction, each having a plurality of storage locations, and a transfer device that is designed to transfer at least one of t...