US Patent Issued to AutoStore Technology AS on Nov. 11 for "Method and computer program for controlling storage and retrieval of personal storage containers in an automated storage and retrieval system" (Norwegian Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 11 -- United States Patent no. 12,466,651, issued on Nov. 11, was assigned to AutoStore Technology AS (Nedre Vats, Norway).

"Method and computer program for controlling storage and retrieval of personal storage containers in an automated storage and retrieval system" was invented by Magne Hatteland (Stavanger, Norway), Ivar Fjeldheim (Haugesund, Norway) and Trond Austrheim (Etne, Norway).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method and computer program product controls the transferring of a storage container for storing items by transferring the storage container via access station at an interaction area among a plurality of interaction areas of an automated storage and retrie...