US Patent Issued to AutoStore Technology AS on June 10 for "Method for handling malfunctioning vehicles on a track system and a storage and retrieval system using such a method" (Norwegian Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 18 -- United States Patent no. 12,325,588, issued on June 10, was assigned to AutoStore Technology AS (Nedre Vats, Norway).

"Method for handling malfunctioning vehicles on a track system and a storage and retrieval system using such a method" was invented by Oystein Gjerdevik (Skjold, Norway) and Ragnar Stuhaug (Skjold, Norway).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method handles malfunctioning vehicles on a track system constituting part of a storage and retrieval system configured to store a plurality of stacks of storage containers. The track system forms a grid pattern of adjacent cells. The storage and retrieval system includes a plurality of remotely operated vehicles co...