ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,577,043, issued on March 17.

"Apparatus for moving transport containers between a container stack and a container rack" was invented by Peter Entenfellner (Thalheim bei Wels, Austria) and Andreas Holzleithner (Fischlham, Austria).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An apparatus for moving transport containers (1) between a container stack (4) and a container rack (22) comprises a lifting device (2) that can be adjusted to a transport container (1) transversely to a lifting direction (H). For the apparatus to have a compact structure and reliably moves transport containers between a container stack and a container rack, irrespective of the fil...