ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,214,960, issued on Feb. 4, was assigned to AutoStore Technology AS (Nedre Vats, Norway).
"Service vehicle" was invented by Trond Austrheim (Etne, Norway).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A service vehicle moves on a rail system including a first set of parallel rails arranged in a horizontal plane and extending in a first direction and a second set of parallel rails arranged in the horizontal plane and extending in a second direction which is orthogonal to the first direction. The first and second sets of rails form a grid pattern in the horizontal plane including a plurality of adjacent grid cells. The service vehicle includes a container h...