ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,608,685, issued on April 21, was assigned to AutoStore Technology AS (Nedre Vats, Norway).
"System and method for condition based maintenance" was invented by Jorgen Djuve Heggebo (Olen, Norway), Ingvar Fagerland (Kolnes, Norway) and Dag Arne Matre (Sandeid, Norway).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system for condition-based maintenance of an automated storage and retrieval system includes a framework structure with a rail system forming a three-dimensional storage grid structure for storing storage containers for storing items. The grid structure forms vertical storage columns each having a horizontal area defined by the size of an acce...