US Patent Issued to SIMPL Automation on Nov. 4 for "Load handling system for storage racking" (Massachusetts, New York, Tennessee Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,459,732, issued on Nov. 4, 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 may comprise an upper horizontal guide rail and a lower horizontal guide rail coupled with storage racking, a vertical guide rail assembly slidably coupled with the upper horizontal guide rail and the lower horizontal guide rail, a first horizontal drive motor coupled with the vertical guide rail assembly configure...