US Patent Issued to AutoStore Technology AS on Jan. 13 for "Automated storage and retrieval system, a method of operating the system and a multi trolley vehicle" (Norwegian Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 13 -- United States Patent no. 12,522,437, issued on Jan. 13, was assigned to AutoStore Technology AS (Nedre Vats, Norway).

"Automated storage and retrieval system, a method of operating the system and a multi trolley vehicle" was invented by Jorgen Djuve Heggebo (Olen, Norway) and Trond Austrheim (Etne, Norway).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An automated storage and retrieval system that includes a rail system that includes a first set of parallel tracks, arranged in a horizontal plane and extending in a first direction, and a second set of parallel tracks, arranged in the horizontal plane and extending in a second direction that is orthogonal to the first direction; a p...