ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 23 -- United States Patent no. 12,503,330, issued on Dec. 23, was assigned to Tecnau S.r.l. (Ivrea, Italy).
"Sheet stacking equipment" was invented by Emanuela De Marco (Ivrea, Italy), Rudi Bressan (Ivrea, Italy) and Davide Gianetta (Ivrea, Italy).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Equipment for stacking sheets with a stack support, input rollers for feeding entering sheets and transport belts with lower branches arranged above the stack support. A compensation mechanism modifies the height of the stack support, while the transport belts are motorized to drag the entering sheets with the lower branches and deposit the sheets on the stack support or on stacked sheets. An arres...