US Patent Issued to AutoStore Technology AS on Feb. 24 for "Section based speed reduction" (Norwegian Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,559,314, issued on Feb. 24, was assigned to AutoStore Technology AS (Nedre Vats, Norway).

"Section based speed reduction" was invented by Ingvar Fagerland (Kolnes, Norway).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Movement is controlled of a plurality of container handling vehicles on a rail system arranged at least partially across a top of a framework structure of an automated storage and retrieval system, on which rail system the plurality of container handling vehicles are operable to raise storage containers from, and lower storage containers into, storage columns arranged in rows between upright members and horizontal members of the framework ...