Invention Grant
- Patent Title: Automated handling and manipulation of packages and packages specially adapted therefor
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Application No.: US17167787Application Date: 2021-02-04
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Publication No.: US12138804B2Publication Date: 2024-11-12
- Inventor: Julian Leland Bell , Stephens B. Woodrough, Jr. , Justin Ashtiani
- Applicant: United Parcel Service of America, Inc.
- Applicant Address: US GA Atlanta
- Assignee: United Parcel Service of America, Inc.
- Current Assignee: United Parcel Service of America, Inc.
- Current Assignee Address: US GA Atlanta
- Agency: Shook, Hardy & Bacon L.L.P.
- Main IPC: B65D33/25
- IPC: B65D33/25 ; B25J9/00 ; B25J9/16 ; B25J13/08 ; B65B43/28 ; G05B15/02

Abstract:
Systems, methods, and apparatuses for handling and manipulating packages in automated or semi-automated fashion and packages adapted for the same. The systems may include package-holding devices, package-manipulating devices, and package-detection components for locating packages or portions thereof in a three-dimensional space. The packages may include features that enable automated or semi-automated handling and manipulation thereof, such as different types of opening/closing mechanisms with different geometric structures that allow for holding, shifting, and manipulating the packages and/or portions thereof with the package-manipulating devices. The packages additionally or alternatively may include mechanical fasteners, magnets, and/or spring-biased opening/closing mechanisms for keeping the packages closed prior to manipulation thereof. Such packages and systems may be used in a logistics network to the increase speed, accuracy, and efficiency of processing packages having, at least in part, a non-fixed geometry.
Public/Granted literature
- US20220241971A1 AUTOMATED HANDLING AND MANIPULATION OF PACKAGES AND PACKAGES SPECIALLY ADAPTED THEREFOR Public/Granted day:2022-08-04
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