ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,286,297, issued on April 29, was assigned to OCADO INNOVATION Ltd. (Hatfield Herts, Great Britain).
"Object handling system and method" was invented by Lars Sverker Ture Lindbo (Hatfield, Great Britain) and Andrew John Ingram-Tedd (Hatfield, Great Britain).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A vehicle for use with an object handling system, the object handling system including two substantially perpendicular sets of rails forming a first grid, a plurality of first uprights supporting the first grid, a plurality of containers arranged in stacks, each stack being located underneath the first grid, one or more robotic load handling devices configu...