US Patent Issued to TGW Logistics on Sept. 30 for "Robot system for testing a loading space of a loading aid in a storage and order-picking system and operating method therefor" (Austrian Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,427,656, issued on Sept. 30, was assigned to TGW Logistics GmbH (Marchtrenk, Austria).

"Robot system for testing a loading space of a loading aid in a storage and order-picking system and operating method therefor" was invented by Christian Prechtl (Voecklabruck, Austria) and Harald Schroepf (Wels, Austria).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A robot system includes a robot having a gripping unit for gripping goods and a sensor system for detecting a loading space of a loading aid and the goods stored therein. After the gripping of a good, a check is conducted using a controller on whether a good protrudes beyond the loading space. If necessa...