US Patent Issued to Symbotic on Sept. 16 for "Storage and retrieval system transport vehicle" (Massachusetts, New Hampshire Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,415,689, issued on Sept. 16, was assigned to Symbotic LLC (Wilmington, Mass.).

"Storage and retrieval system transport vehicle" was invented by Michael Cyrulik (Sudbury, Mass.), Todd E. Kepple (Litchfield, N.H.), Scott Collins (Westford, Mass.) and Jason S. Sirois (Atkinson, N.H.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An autonomous transport vehicle includes a frame forming a payload section configured to hold one or more pickfaces, a transfer arm movably mounted to the frame, a drive section connected to the frame, and a controller connected to the drive section, the controller being configured to effect an on-the-fly sortation of pickfaces ca...