US Patent Issued to CARNEGIE MELLON UNIVERSITY on Oct. 28 for "High-density automated storage and retrieval system" (Pennsylvania Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,454,409, issued on Oct. 28, was assigned to CARNEGIE MELLON UNIVERSITY (Pittsburgh).

"High-density automated storage and retrieval system" was invented by Herman Herman (Pittsburgh) and Gabriel Goldman (Pittsburgh).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A high-density storage system for goods is described in which totes carrying the goods are stored in a storage structure and stored and retrieved via stationary or mobile conveyors running along opposite ends of each layer of the storage structure. The totes may be moved to or from the conveyors as the rows move at a constant velocity toward or away from the conveyors. Totes at the ends of rows ar...