ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 13 -- United States Patent no. 12,522,434, issued on Jan. 13, was assigned to OCADO INNOVATION Ltd. (Hatfield, Great Britain).

"Stability of a load handling device in a storage system" was invented by Marek Havel (Hatfield, Great Britain), Matthew Harman (Hatfield, Great Britain), Hamza Ellahi (Hatfield, Great Britain) and Negar Khosroshahli (Hatfield, Great Britain).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A load handling device for lifting and moving one or more containers stacked in a storage system with a grid framework structure supporting a plurality of tracks arranged in a grid pattern, the load handling device comprising: A) a driving mechanism; and B) a vehicle body having...