US Patent Issued to AutoStore Technology AS on Feb. 18 for "Automated storage and retrieval system" (Norwegian Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,227,356, issued on Feb. 18, was assigned to AutoStore Technology AS (Nedre Vats, Norway).

"Automated storage and retrieval system" was invented by Trond Austrheim (Etne, Norway), Ivar Fjeldheim (Haugesund, Norway) and Ingvar Fagerland (Kolnes, Norway).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A container handling vehicle includes a lower part and an upper part. The lower part includes a width and a length that form a vehicle footprint of the container handling vehicle; and a storage space configured to accommodate a storage container. The lower part includes a first set of wheels oriented in a first vertical plane and a second set of wheels oriented...