US Patent Issued to O.W. MACHINEBOUW on July 29 for "Storage system and a method of operating the storage system" (Dutch Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,371,258, issued on July 29, was assigned to O.W. MACHINEBOUW B.V. (Pijnacker, Netherlands).

"Storage system and a method of operating the storage system" was invented by Oscar Van Buijtene (The Hague, Netherlands).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A storage system (1) comprises a plurality of vertical stacks (2) of storage containers (3), wherein the stacks (2) are arranged in a horizontal first direction (X) and a horizontal second direction (Y) which is perpendicular to the first direction (X), a transport unit (8) for transporting at least one container (3) to or from a selected stack (2) in the first and/or second direction (X, Y), and a...