US Patent Issued to Symbotic Canada on July 14 for "Tool for palletizing mixed load products, palletizing robot including the tool, and method therefor" (Canadian Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 14 -- United States Patent no. 12,678,942, issued on July 14, was assigned to Symbotic Canada ULC (Canada).

"Tool for palletizing mixed load products, palletizing robot including the tool, and method therefor" was invented by Marc Ducharme (Boucherville, Canada), Sylvain-Paul Morency (Laval, Canada), Simon Gariepy (Laval, Canada) and Eric Lajoie (Montreal).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A tool, for palletizing mixed load products, includes a frame for mounting the tool to a robot, a support assembly having a support member forming a support surface disposed in a predetermined reference orientation so as to support product, and a gripping assembly, mounted to the frame, wi...