US Patent Issued to Wipotec on Sept. 1 for "Arrangement with conveyor and scale" (German Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 1 -- United States Patent no. 12,722,898, issued on Sept. 1, was assigned to Wipotec GmbH (Kaiserslautern, Germany).

"Arrangement with conveyor and scale" was invented by Daniel Anders (Osthofen, Germany) and Markus Jochen Walter (Trippstadt, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A space saving apparatus comprised of a conveyor device and a scale. The scale includes a weighing belt that is directly adjacent to the conveyor device. The conveyor device includes a release section that permits unclamped products to reach the weighing belt. The length of the weighing belt is no shorter than the length of the release section."

The patent was filed on May 2, 2024, under Appl...