US Patent Issued to AutoStore Technology AS on Oct. 7 for "Method, and associated system, of providing an operator access to a target storage position in an automated storage and retrieval system" (Norwegian Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 8 -- United States Patent no. 12,434,911, issued on Oct. 7, was assigned to AutoStore Technology AS (Nedre Vats, Norway).

"Method, and associated system, of providing an operator access to a target storage position in an automated storage and retrieval system" was invented by Ivar Fjeldheim (Haugesund, Norway) and Trond Austrheim (Etne, Norway).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An automated storage and retrieval system includes a rail system for guiding a plurality of container handling vehicles. The rail system includes a first set of parallel rails arranged in a horizontal plane and extending in a first direction, and a second set of parallel rails arranged in the horizont...