ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 31 -- United States Patent no. 12,589,943, issued on March 31.
"Storage system" was invented by Matthew Cornelius (Las Vegas), James Wigglesworth (Las Vegas) and Thomas Clancy (Chelmsford, Great Britain).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A robotic picking system which does not require grid area to be reserved for picking stations and which enables efficient automated picking. There is provided a storage system including a first set of tracks extending in a first direction, a second set of tracks extending in a second direction transverse to the first direction, to form a grid comprising a plurality of grid cells, a framework structure on which the first set of tracks and th...