US Patent Issued to Unverferth Manufacturing on Aug. 25 for "Automated cart operation" (Iowa Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,717,327, issued on Aug. 25, was assigned to Unverferth Manufacturing Co. Inc. (Kalida, Ohio).

"Automated cart operation" was invented by Michael D. Van Mill (Shell Rock, Iowa), Christopher M. Self (Aplington, Iowa) and Ronald J. Schlimgen (Shell Rock, Iowa).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems and methods for automated cart operation. The automated cart operation may include determining whether a container is full at a first unloading location and, if so, moving the cart from the first unloading location to a second unloading location. The automated cart operation may include moving the cart to a container, determining whether the cart ...