US Patent Issued to Staples on Dec. 30 for "Hybrid modular storage fetching system" (Massachusetts, New Jersey, Washington, Florida, Arkansas Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 31 -- United States Patent no. 12,509,299, issued on Dec. 30, was assigned to Staples Inc. (Framingham, Mass.).

"Hybrid modular storage fetching system" was invented by Daniel Jarvis (Orlando, Fla.), Paolo Gerli Amador (Framingham, Mass.), Michael Bhaskaran (Seattle), Amit Kalra (Acton, Mass.), Rodney Gallaway (Little Rock, Ark.) and Vikranth Gopalakrishnan (Hoboken, N.J.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A hybrid modular storage fetching system is described. In an example implementation, an automated guided vehicle of the hybrid modular storage fetching system includes a drive unit that provides motive force to propel the automated guided vehicle within an operating enviro...