ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,715,692, issued on Aug. 25, was assigned to AutoStore Technology AS (Nedre Vats, Norway).

"Dual carriage access station for an automated storage and retrieval system and a method for using same" was invented by Trond Austrheim (Etne, Norway).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An access station, which is for presentation of a storage container from an automated storage and retrieval system to a picker, has a receiving area for receiving storage containers, forward of the receiving area a picking position for picking products from the storage container. The access station includes a guiding frame, a primary carriage, and a secondary carriage. T...