US Patent Issued to Zebra Technologies on April 21 for "System and method for bulk transfer-based container unloading" (California, Florida Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,606,390, issued on April 21, was assigned to Zebra Technologies Corp. (Lincolnshire, Ill.).

"System and method for bulk transfer-based container unloading" was invented by Robert E. Beach (Los Altos, Calif.) and Charles Burton Swope (Coral Springs, Fla.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system for unloading items from a container includes: a movable chassis configured for deployment into an open end of the container, to a selectable depth within the container; a conveyor supported by the movable chassis, the conveyor configured to extend from an input end positioned within the container according to the selectable depth to a output end e...