US Patent Issued to Glidestore Freetrack on Oct. 21 for "Electrically driven shelving system with a LiDAR operating system" (Australian Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,448,220, issued on Oct. 21, was assigned to Glidestore Freetrack Pty Ltd. (Unley, Australia).

"Electrically driven shelving system with a LiDAR operating system" was invented by Brian Parker (Unley, Australia).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A mobile shelving system comprising a plurality of shelving bay rows including at least one driven shelving bay mounted on a track and a LiDAR scanning arrangement scanning the outside of the shelving system to detect any object reflecting the light, determining where that break has occurred and acting on the shelving system to move it at that point to open up an aisle."

The patent was filed on May 27...