ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 23 -- United States Patent no. 12,421,028, issued on Sept. 23, was assigned to KUKA Deutschland GmbH (Germany).
"Logistics system" was invented by Thomas Ruehr (Erlangen, Germany).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A logistics system includes a first high-bay rack, at least one further high-bay rack, and at least one robot arm with a plurality of links and joints connecting the links for relative adjustment. One of the links is a bottom link of the robot arm which forms a base. The first high-bay rack has a first robot arm carrier with a first coupling device which, in a state in which the robot arm is coupled to the first robot arm carrier, interacts with a counter-coupling...