US Patent Issued to Toyota Automated Logistics Americas on Sept. 1 for "Palletizer system with centralized palletizing patterns" (Missouri, Illinois Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 1 -- United States Patent no. 12,722,914, issued on Sept. 1, was assigned to Toyota Automated Logistics Americas LLC (Carmel, Ind.).

"Palletizer system with centralized palletizing patterns" was invented by Colin Shipley (Bridgeton, Mo.), Geoff Schreiber (Maryville, Ill.) and Kenneth David Naumann (Maryland Heights, Mo.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A palletizing system includes one or more palletizers. A database is configured to maintain a stacking pattern library containing multiple stacking patterns for the palletizers. A computer is operatively connected to the database. The computer is configured to automatically select a stacking pattern for a selected one of th...