US Patent Issued to AutoStore Technology AS on July 21 for "Service vehicle with drone bases" (Norwegian Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,686,366, issued on July 21, was assigned to AutoStore Technology AS (Nedre Vats, Norway).

"Service vehicle with drone bases" was invented by Trond Austrheim (Etne, Norway) and Jon Hermansen (Heggedal, Norway).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Embodiments of the present disclosure provide a service vehicle. In some embodiments, the service vehicle comprises a platform configured to service a container handling vehicle while the service vehicle is on a grid-based rail system of a storage grid of an automated storage system for storing storage containers, and one or more wheel modules, each wheel module configured to move the service vehicle al...