ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 11 -- United States Patent no. 12,545,508, issued on Feb. 10, was assigned to AutoStore Technology AS (Nedre Vats, Norway).
"Gas isolated storage system" was invented by Ivar Fjeldheim (Haugesund, Norway) and Trond Austrheim (Etne, Norway).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A storage facility includes a storage space, a container handling vehicle, a first upper vehicle support, a first lower vehicle support, a container delivery vehicle, a transit space, and a first separation wall. The storage space encloses a storage and retrieval system including a storage grid configured to store a plurality of storage containers in vertical stacks. The first upper vehicle support extends...