ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 13 -- United States Patent no. 12,522,438, issued on Jan. 13, was assigned to Jungheinrich AG (Hamburg, Germany).

"Block storage arrangement and method for operating a block storage arrangement" was invented by Michael Becker (Hainburg, Germany), Timm Morawietz (Tholey-Uberroth, Germany), Jorg Cavelius (Bad Vilbel, Germany) and Michael Reising (Offenbach, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A block storage arrangement and method of operating same. The block storage arrangement includes multiple container stacking compartments; a loading compartment arranged below the container stacking compartments; at least one loading vehicle, which is movable in the loading compart...