ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,252,342, issued on March 18, was assigned to ARISTOKLITOS ENTERPRISES LTD. (Paralimni, Cyprus).
"Self-driven carriage for automatically storing and accessing containers in a storage rack arrangement" was invented by Sergey Vladimirovich Solovianenko (Moskau, Russia).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A self-driven carriage (2) stores and accesses containers (4) in a storage rack arrangement (3) and includes a first wheel set (37) driving along a first axis (x) and a second wheel set (43) driving along a second axis (y) transverse to the first axis (x). At least one of the wheel sets is essentially vertically movable between a driving positio...