ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,492,073, issued on Dec. 9, was assigned to Symbotic LLC (Wilmington, Mass.).
"Warehousing scalable storage structure" was invented by Robert Sullivan (Wilmington, Mass.) and John Lert (Wakefield, Mass.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A storage and retrieval system is provided and includes a transfer deck having a longitudinal axis, a first storage section and a second storage section. The first storage section and second storage section are located on opposite sides of the transfer deck and are substantially symmetrically opposed to one another about the longitudinal axis, where each of the first and second storage sections includes storag...