ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 11 -- United States Patent no. 12,545,507, issued on Feb. 10, was assigned to SIMPL AUTOMATION INC. (Waltham, Mass.).
"Load handling system for storage racking" was invented by Ayman Labib (Waltham, Mass.), Nicholas Gordon (Rochester, N.Y.), Daniel Mitus (Middleton, Mass.) and Stephen Nilsen (Nashville, Tenn.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A load handling system for storage racking includes a horizontal guide rail system integrated with the storage racking and a vertical guide rail assembly that moves horizontally along the horizontal guide rail system via a first motor. A load handling platform, coupled to the vertical guide rail assembly, is vertically movable along th...