US Patent Issued to Symbotic on Oct. 21 for "Automated storage and retrieval system with integral secured personnel access zones and remote rover shutdown" (New Hampshire, Massachusetts Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,449,803, issued on Oct. 21, was assigned to Symbotic LLC (Wilmington, Mass.).

"Automated storage and retrieval system with integral secured personnel access zones and remote rover shutdown" was invented by Rick K. Dorval (Dunbarton, N.H.) and Todd Comins (Chelmsford, Mass.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A transportation system having a transportation space including destinations distributed in the transportation space, multiple independent automated vehicles configured for free roving through the transportation space to and between the destinations so that the vehicles are dynamically distributed through the transportation space, a contr...