US Patent Issued to WestRock Packaging Systems on Aug. 18 for "Machines, systems, and methods for assembling packaging cases" (Florida Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 18 -- United States Patent no. 12,709,081, issued on Aug. 18, was assigned to WestRock Packaging Systems LLC (Atlanta).

"Machines, systems, and methods for assembling packaging cases" was invented by Kirk Steven Kempnich (Oviedo, Fla.), Eric Pierce Ward (Orlando, Fla.) and Andrew Joshua Bulman (Orlando, Fla.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems, machines and methods for erecting cases or cartons from blanks using robotic arms, which includes a magazine of blanks, a robotic arm, a pair of side belts, an automated change-over in which posts of each robotic arm mate up to points on the magazine and side belts as well as a brake assembly to keep the magazine and side belts...