US Patent Issued to Textron Systems on March 24 for "Roller-and-rail cargo handling system with pallet-moving trolley" (Louisiana, Florida, Mississippi Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,583,686, issued on March 24, was assigned to Textron Systems Corp. (Hunt Valley, Md.).

"Roller-and-rail cargo handling system with pallet-moving trolley" was invented by Matthew Keith Dupre (Slidell, La.), Richard Earl Newman III (Chalmette, La.), Glenn Michael Hauptmann (Diamondhead, Miss.) and William Keith DuBose (Pensacola, Fla.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A roller-and-rail cargo handling system that includes tracked rollers and side rails for receiving cargo pallets. A trolley system is used to move the pallets along the tracked rollers, which includes a trolley movable along a trolley track by one or more cables. The trolley in...