US Patent Issued to Superior Product Handling Solutions on Aug. 25 for "Collating system with friction resistant channels" (Minnesota Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,715,726, issued on Aug. 25, was assigned to Superior Product Handling Solutions Inc. (Brooklyn Park, Minn.).

"Collating system with friction resistant channels" was invented by Steven G. Sands (Plymouth, Minn.) and Joseph R. Lacher (Zimmerman, Minn.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A vertical collating system includes a plurality of channels, each channel, of the plurality of channels, having one or more channel walls. The system includes a plurality of feeders configured to hold a plurality of objects, each feeder, of the plurality of feeders, corresponding to a respective channel, of the plurality of channels, and configured to dispense ...