US Patent Issued to AutoStore Technology AS on April 29 for "Expansion joint, system and method for connecting regions of a rail-based grid storage system" (Norwegian Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,286,294, issued on April 29, was assigned to AutoStore Technology AS (Nedre Vats, Norway).

"Expansion joint, system and method for connecting regions of a rail-based grid storage system" was invented by Trond Austrheim (Etne, Norway).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The invention relates to an expansion joint (10) for connecting regions of a rail-based grid storage system (50, 50', 50"; 104, 104', 104"), the expansion joint (10) comprising: -a first rail element (12) and a second rail element (11), the rail elements (12, 11) being elongate and configured to slide relative to one another in a longitudinal direction in a junction area where th...