US Patent Issued to AutoStore Technology AS on April 29 for "System and method for power management" (Norwegian Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,286,027, issued on April 29, was assigned to AutoStore Technology AS (Nedre Vats, Norway).

"System and method for power management" was invented by Helge Steinbru Lauvsnes (Suldalsosen, Norway) and Jorgen Djuve Heggebo (Olen, Norway).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system for power management of an automated storage and retrieval system includes a plurality container handling vehicles with at least one rechargeable power source for handling containers in a three dimensional underlying storage grid, a charging device for charging the at least one rechargeable power source, a power source for supplying power to the storage and retrieval sys...