ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,286,295, issued on April 29, was assigned to AutoStore Technology AS (Nedre Vats, Norway).
"Robot position detection system" was invented by Jorgen Djuve Heggebo (Olen, Norway).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An automated storage and retrieval system includes remotely operated vehicles, a main grid in which the vehicles operates, a service grid for placement of vehicles for service, and a control system for controlling the vehicles. The control system includes a data record for the status of a vehicle state for each vehicle. Each remotely operated vehicle includes a label and the service grid includes a reader for reading the label so as to...