According to news reporting originating from Washington, D.C., by NewsRx journalists, a patent application by the inventors Ghere, Brian Michael (Chattanooga, TN, US); Ralston, Timothy David (Calhoun, GA, US), filed on October 18, 2023, was made available online on February 8, 2024. No assignee for this patent application has been made. Reporters obtained the following quote from the background information supplied by the inventors: “It is often necessary to apply labels to containers and pallets containing various devices being packaged and/or shipped. These labels often describe container and/or pallet contents, or recipient addresses required by carriers to properly deliver the containers and/or pallets to recipients. “Label printers with rigid-arm label applicators are known in the art. For example, some prior automated systems for labeling containers and/or pallets focused on labeling pallets or containers of uniform size and shape with labels in predetermined positions. Some systems, such as those described in US 20150225104 and ES 2753926, focus on bringing a label printer/applier device to the pallet or container, where the label printer/applier then prints and attaches a desired label to the pallet or container. These existing units generally lack the ability to be used in-line and with containers and/or pallets of varying sizes and shapes without human intervention.”
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