US Patent Issued to TGW Logistics on Sept. 16 for "Storage and picking system and picking method for automatically and manually picking goods" (Austrian Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,415,676, issued on Sept. 16, was assigned to TGW Logistics GmbH (Marchtrenk, Austria).

"Storage and picking system and picking method for automatically and manually picking goods" was invented by Christian Ahammer (Gunskirchen, Austria), Christoph Haslehner (Prambachkirchen, Austria) and Harald Schroepf (Wels, Austria).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "In a method for order-picking articles from source loading aids into or onto target loading aids in a storage and order-picking system, the articles belong to a first group of types of article, whose types of article can be handled automatically, or a second group of types of article, whose t...