US Patent Issued to Symbotic on April 29 for "Multiposition lift" (Massachusetts, Pennsylvania, Virginia Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,286,299, issued on April 29, was assigned to Symbotic LLC (Wilmington, Mass.).

"Multiposition lift" was invented by Larry Sweet (Wenham, Mass.), Kil Kwak (Cambridge, Mass.), Kirill Pankratov (Acton, Mass.), Russell G. Barbour (Natick, Mass.), William Johnson (Andover, Mass.), Juergen D. Conrad (York, Pa.), Juergen Baumbach (Hampton, Va.) and Ronald Kyslinger (York, Pa.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An automated storage and retrieval system includes a first independently operable section having a first number of predetermined storage and retrieval transactions, and a second independently operable section in communication with the first in...