US Patent Issued to AutoStore Technology AS on May 13 for "System and a method for harvesting energy from a container handling vehicle" (Norwegian Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,296,718, issued on May 13, was assigned to AutoStore Technology AS (Nedre Vats, Norway).

"System and a method for harvesting energy from a container handling vehicle" was invented by Ivar Fjeldheim (Haugesund, Norway).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A container-handling vehicle for handling storage containers in a three-dimensional grid of an underlying storage system, comprising: at least one lifting device for lifting storage containers from and lowering storage containers to the underlying storage system, said lifting device comprises a lifting frame for gripping a storage container, a winch system for lifting and lowering the lifting f...