US Patent Issued to TEXTRON INNOVATIONS on March 31 for "Rack shelf systems and method for loading payloads into a rack shelf system" (Kansas Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 31 -- United States Patent no. 12,588,758, issued on March 31, was assigned to TEXTRON INNOVATIONS INC. (Providence, R.I.).

"Rack shelf systems and method for loading payloads into a rack shelf system" was invented by Gavin Thomas Smith (Wichita, Kan.), Jim Michael Dugan (Conway Springs, Kan.), William Dale George (Andover, Kan.), James Arthur Knittel (Bel Aire, Kan.) and Jonathan Swartz (El Dorado, Kan.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "In an embodiment a tray includes a base area having a top side, a bottom side, a rear end, peripheral sides and a front end, a plurality of flanges extending upward from the top side and arranged at the rear end and the peripheral sides, a...