US Patent Issued to AutoStore Technology AS on July 29 for "System and method of operating an automated storage and retrieval system" (Norwegian Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,371,260, issued on July 29, was assigned to AutoStore Technology AS (Nedre Vats, Norway).

"System and method of operating an automated storage and retrieval system" was invented by Geir Korge-Harajuvet (Vikedal, Norway).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An automated storage and retrieval system includes a rail system with a first set of parallel rails extending in a first direction and a second set of parallel rails extending in second direction. The second direction is perpendicular to the first direction. The system includes a plurality of container handling vehicles on the rail system operable to handle storage containers. Each container ...