US Patent Issued to AutoStore Technology AS on April 7 for "Method and system for picking products in a picking station of an automatic storage and retrieval system" (Norwegian Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 7 -- United States Patent no. 12,596,967, issued on April 7, was assigned to AutoStore Technology AS (Nedre Vats, Norway).

"Method and system for picking products in a picking station of an automatic storage and retrieval system" was invented by Ingvar Fagerland (Kolnes, Norway).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method picks products from at least one storage container in a picking zone of a picking station of an automated storage and retrieval system. The picking is controlled by a picking system controller communicating with a warehouse management system, WMS. The picking is performed by a picking device in the picking zone by placing picked products in one or more cons...