US Patent Issued to AutoStore Technology AS on April 21 for "Automated storage tower with multiple rows" (Norwegian Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,606,374, issued on April 21, was assigned to AutoStore Technology AS (Nedre Vats, Norway).

"Automated storage tower with multiple rows" was invented by Trond Austrheim (Etne, Norway) and Ingvar Fagerland (Kolnes, Norway).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A storage tower for storing storage containers includes a plurality of horizontally extending container supporting frameworks distributed with vertical offsets. The plurality of horizontal container supporting frameworks includes a first container supporting framework and at least one second container supporting framework arranged beneath and extending parallel to the first container suppor...