ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,252,335, issued on March 18, was assigned to AutoStore Technology AS (Nedre Vats, Norway).
"Storage container" was invented by Trond Austrheim (Etne, Norway).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A set of moulded panels, which can be assembled together to form a storage container for an automated storage and retrieval system, includes a rectangular base panel and four side panels. The base panel is moulded with a perimeter profile. Each of the side panels is moulded with a lower edge profile. The lower edge profiles of each side panel are slidingly engaged with the perimeter profile during assembly of the storage container. Each of the side pan...