US Patent Issued to Symbotic on Sept. 9 for "Storage and retrieval system" (Pennsylvania, Massachusetts, Georgia Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 10 -- United States Patent no. 12,410,010, issued on Sept. 9, was assigned to Symbotic LLC (Wilmington, Mass.).

"Storage and retrieval system" was invented by Juergen D. Conrad (York, Pa.), Robert Hsiung (Cambridge, Mass.), Kirill K. Pankratov (Acton, Mass.), Robert Sullivan (Wilmington, Mass.) and Larry M. Sweet (Atlanta).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An automated storage and retrieval system including at least one autonomous transport vehicle, a transfer deck that defines a transport surface for the vehicle, at least one reciprocating lift, a first and second pickface interface station connected to the deck and spaced apart from each other, each station forming a pick...