US Patent Issued to Symbotic on April 22 for "Storage and retrieval system" (Massachusetts, Pennsylvania, Georgia Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,280,953, issued on April 22, was assigned to Symbotic LLC (Wilmington, Mass.).

"Storage and retrieval system" was invented by Kirill K. Pankratov (Acton, Mass.), Juergen D. Conrad (York, Pa.), Robert Hsiung (Cambridge, Mass.), William Johnson Jr. (Wilmington, Mass.), Edward A. Macdonald (Somerville, Mass.) and Larry M. Sweet (Atlanta).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "In accordance with one or more aspects of the disclosed embodiment, a lift includes at least one load handling device configured so as to reciprocate along a lift axis, the load handling device including a frame forming a payload section with a payload support surface having a c...