ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,753,005, issued on Oct. 6, was assigned to Syntegon Technology GmbH (Waiblingen, Germany).

"Receptacle grouping system and method for operating a receptacle grouping system" was invented by Johannes Bauerle (Obersontheim, Germany), Matthias Schwandt (Wallhausen, Germany) and Sebastian Gran (Crailsheim, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A receptacle grouping system (10) includes a stock storage device (14), receptacles (12, 18) being arranged in the stock storage device in a delivery configuration in which different sub-quantities of the receptacles have a first distance (32) from each other that corresponds to the delivery configurat...