US Patent Issued to AutoStore Technology AS on Sept. 23 for "Method, system and computer program for controlling an automated storage and retrieval system during rebuilding its physical design" (Norwegian Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 23 -- United States Patent no. 12,421,051, issued on Sept. 23, was assigned to AutoStore Technology AS (Nedre Vats, Norway).

"Method, system and computer program for controlling an automated storage and retrieval system during rebuilding its physical design" was invented by Karl Hatteland (Oslo, Norway).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method, system, and computer program for controlling operation of an automated storage and retrieval system during rebuilding a physical design. The method includes a planning and designing phase that establish a new design. Storage columns with a rail system that is affected by the rebuilding are excluded from a selection of available rou...