ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 20 -- United States Patent no. 12,391,476, issued on Aug. 19, was assigned to SSI Schafer Automation GmbH (AT) (Graz, Austria).
"Picking shuttle and method for picking within a shuttle-rack aisle" was invented by Johann Jeuschnigger (Graz, Austria).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "It is disclosed a method for picking a product according to a picking order, which preferably belongs to a group of previously collected picking orders, by shuttles cooperating with each other in a shuttle rack storage system comprising a rack-storage block and a plurality of shuttles which are movable in a force-guided manner in a rack aisle defined between two rack rows on different rack levels,...