US Patent Issued to TGW Logistics Group on Feb. 4 for "Method and order-picking storage facility for storing and order-picking articles" (German, Austrian Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,214,961, issued on Feb. 4, was assigned to TGW Logistics Group GmbH (Marchtrenk, Austria).

"Method and order-picking storage facility for storing and order-picking articles" was invented by Michael Johannes Schedlbauer (Hengersberg, Germany), Stefan Holzner (Zaisering, Germany) and Harald Johannes Schroepf (Wels, Austria).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "In a method for storing and picking stackable article carriers in an order fulfillment facility, in which transport loading aids are transported between a loading station with an automatically operated loading device, a storage zone and a removal station with an automatically operated unload...