US Patent Issued to AutoStore Technology AS on Sept. 2 for "Rescue system and methods for retrieving a malfunctioning vehicle from a rail system" (Norwegian Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,404,099, issued on Sept. 2, was assigned to AutoStore Technology AS (Nedre Vats, Norway).

"Rescue system and methods for retrieving a malfunctioning vehicle from a rail system" was invented by Trond Austrheim (Etne, Norway) and Oystein Gjerdevik (Skjold, Norway).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A rescue system for retrieving a malfunctioning vehicle from a rail system of an automated storage and retrieval system includes a first rescue vehicle and a second rescue vehicle. The rail system includes a plurality of rails with tracks extending in an X-direction and a plurality of rails with tracks extending in a Y-direction perpendicular to the ...