ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,378,079, issued on Aug. 5, was assigned to HUBTEX MASCHINENBAU GMBH & Co. KG (Fulda, Germany).

"Transport system for order-picking" was invented by Juergen Keller (Grossenlueder, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A transport system for picking products and/or goods. The transport system includes an order-picking device with a rigid base frame and a transport and/or work platform, and two individual vehicles each of which are couplable to the order-picking device and each of which have a drive device, a steering device, and a lifting device which can raise and lower a load-carrying device. The two individual vehicles, when in a decoup...