ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,559,313, issued on Feb. 24, was assigned to AutoStore Technology AS (Nedre Vats, Norway).

"Delivery vehicle with rotatable container carrier, and methods of use thereof" was invented by Trond Austrheim (Etne, Norway) and Ole Alexander Maehle (Etne, Norway).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A remotely operated delivery vehicle for transport of a storage container includes a vehicle base, rolling device motors, a power source, a container carrier, and a rotational drive. The vehicle base includes rolling devices configured to move the remotely operated delivery vehicle in a horizontal plane along tracks of a rail system. The rail system includ...