US Patent Issued to AutoStore Technology AS on Sept. 30 for "Method and system for controlling the operation of container handling vehicles and drones serving an automated storage and retrieval system" (Norwegian Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,428,042, issued on Sept. 30, was assigned to AutoStore Technology AS (Nedre Vats, Norway).

"Method and system for controlling the operation of container handling vehicles and drones serving an automated storage and retrieval system" was invented by Ragnar Stuhaug (Skjold, Norway), Karl Hatteland (Oslo, Norway), Ingvar Fagerland (Kolnes, Norway), Oystein Gjerdevik (Skjold, Norway), Trond Austrheim (Etne, Norway) and Synnove Matre (Sandeid, Norway).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method controls the operation of container handling vehicles and remotely operated specialized container handling vehicles. A specified storage container is to b...