ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,351,392, issued on July 8, was assigned to ROMS Inc (Tokyo).

"Article management system, logistics system, server device, and article management method" was invented by Grzegorz Szyszkowski (Pomeranian, Poland), Lukasz Dawid Drewnowski (Lesser Poland, Poland), Yosuke Maeno (Tokyo) and Jumpei Shimizu (Tokyo).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An article management system includes an automated storage and retrieval system configured to store a plurality of containers, each container containing one or more articles, and take out, to a picking area adjacent to a pick-up area, a container containing at least one article to be picked up at the pick-...