ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 13 -- United States Patent no. 12,522,436, issued on Jan. 13, was assigned to Symbotic LLC (Wilmington, Mass.).
"Automated system for transporting payloads" was invented by John Lert Jr. (Wakefield, Mass.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An automated warehouse storage system including a multilevel storage array is provided. Each aisle has a set of storage levels and each level has storage locations distributed along the aisle. The guideway network extending through the multilevel storage array is configured for autonomous vehicles to move along the guideway network within the multilevel storage array. The guideway network including an inter-aisle guideway spanning at least...