US Patent Issued to Sysco on Aug. 25 for "Pallet and handtruck" (Ohio, Colorado, Minnesota, North Carolina, New Jersey Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,715,492, issued on Aug. 25, was assigned to Sysco Corp. (Houston).

"Pallet and handtruck" was invented by David Huff (Batavia, Ohio), Dana Triplett (Advance, N.C.), Christopher Maughan (Dublin, Ohio), Jake Burkert (Garwood, N.J.), Shawn Stoll (Elbert, Colo.), Gene G. O'Brien (Tonka Bay, Minn.) and Luke Nahorniak (Lonsdale, Minn.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An improved material transport system comprising a pallet with an integrated conveyor belt and a powered handtruck operative to move and configure the pallet for loading, transport and unloading. A lift bar on the handtruck has a lower position, wherein the handtruck is used to tran...