US Patent Issued to OCADO INNOVATION on Sept. 9 for "Method and apparatus for retrieving units from a storage system" (British Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 10 -- United States Patent no. 12,410,008, issued on Sept. 9, was assigned to OCADO INNOVATION Ltd. (Hatfield, Great Britain).

"Method and apparatus for retrieving units from a storage system" was invented by Lars Sverker Ture Lindbo (Hatfield, Great Britain), Andrew John Ingram-Tedd (Hatfield, Great Britain) and Pawel Karolinczak (Hatfield, Great Britain).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A load handling device is disclosed for retrieving, transporting, and delivering containers in a storage system having a grid structure formed of two substantially perpendicular sets of rails or tracks located above stacks of containers. An exemplary load handling device can include a whe...