ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,358,723, issued on July 15, was assigned to Symbotic LLC (Wilmington, Mass.).
"Storage and retrieval system" was invented by John Lert (Wakefield, Mass.), Stephen C Toebes (Chelmsford, Mass.), Robert Sullivan (Wilmington, Mass.), Foster Hinshaw (Cambridge, Mass.) and Nathan Ulrich (Lee, N.H.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A storage and retrieval system including a vertical array of storage levels, each storage level having, picking aisles, storage locations, disposed within the picking aisles, and at least one transfer deck providing access to the picking aisles, a multilevel vertical conveyor system configured to transport the uncontain...