US Patent Issued to AutoStore Technology AS on April 15 for "Container handling vehicle with first and second sections and motor in second section" (Norwegian Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,275,585, issued on April 15, was assigned to AutoStore Technology AS (Nedre Vats, Norway).

"Container handling vehicle with first and second sections and motor in second section" was invented by Trond Austrheim (Etne, Norway).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A container handling vehicle for picking up storage containers from a three-dimensional grid of a storage system, includes: a vehicle body having a first section and a second section arranged side-by-side; a first set of wheels for moving the container handling vehicle along a first direction on a rail system of the grid; and a second set of wheels for moving the container handling vehic...