US Patent Issued to Dambach Lagersysteme on Sept. 23 for "Storage and retrieval unit and method for retrieving an object from a shelf of a shelf storage system" (German Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 23 -- United States Patent no. 12,421,032, issued on Sept. 23, was assigned to Dambach Lagersysteme GmbH & Co KG (Bischweier, Germany).

"Storage and retrieval unit and method for retrieving an object from a shelf of a shelf storage system" was invented by Thomas Pflueger (Karlsruhe, Germany) and Franz Brutler (Gaggenau, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A storage and retrieval unit having a carriage which can be moved along a linear guide arranged on a floor in a shelf aisle in the direction of an X axis and which supports a vertical mast which extends perpendicular to the X axis in the direction of a vertical Y axis. A load receiver is mounted by one end only on a...