US Patent Issued to United Parcel Service of America on March 3 for "Systems, methods, and apparatuses for loading, shifting, and staging objects in automated or semi-automated fashion" (Dutch, American Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,565,134, issued on March 3, was assigned to United Parcel Service of America Inc. (Atlanta).

"Systems, methods, and apparatuses for loading, shifting, and staging objects in automated or semi-automated fashion" was invented by Julio Gil (Veldhoven, Netherlands) and Mallory Freeman (Atlanta).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Loading, shifting, and staging objects in automated or semi-automated fashion including systems, methods, and apparatuses for the same. The embodiments hereof enable automated and/or semi-automated loading, shifting, organizing, staging, and accessing of objects in different environments, e.g., those associated with a log...