US Patent Issued to EXOTEC PRODUCT FRANCE on Aug. 12 for "Bin storage system comprising robots equipped with hooks or fingers for gripping and lifting bins and method of gripping bins therefor" (French Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,384,621, issued on Aug. 12, was assigned to EXOTEC PRODUCT FRANCE (Croix, France).

"Bin storage system comprising robots equipped with hooks or fingers for gripping and lifting bins and method of gripping bins therefor" was invented by Marc Chatain (Zimmerbach, France), Romain Moulin (Lille, France) and Renaud Heitz (Villeneuve d'Ascq, France).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An automatic product storage and retrieval system including: a bin storage facility having a plurality of storage columns arranged in a grid and configured to receive a vertical stack of bins; and at least one robot having a gripping and lifting element for gripping an...