ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,428,226, issued on Sept. 30, was assigned to OCADO INNOVATION Ltd. (Hatfield, Great Britain).
"Track assembly for a storage system" was invented by Stephen Millward (Hatfield, Great Britain), Jaroslaw Malinowski (Hatfield, Great Britain), Pawel Karolinczak (Hatfield, Great Britain), Martyn Bates (Hatfield, Great Britain) and Andrew Ingram-Tedd (Hatfield, Great Britain).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system for guiding the movement of one or more load handling devices in operation includes: a) a first set of parallel tracks and a second set of parallel tracks, the first and second sets of parallel tracks sharing a common track, each tra...