US Patent Issued to AutoStore Technology AS on July 28 for "Container handling vehicle which can load and/or unload itself" (Norwegian Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,692,070, issued on July 28, was assigned to AutoStore Technology AS (Nedre Vats, Norway).

"Container handling vehicle which can load and/or unload itself" was invented by Jorgen Djuve Heggebo (Olen, Norway).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A two-dimensional rail system includes a first set of parallel rails arranged to guide movement of container handling vehicles in a first direction across the top of a frame structure, and a second set of parallel rails arranged perpendicular to the first set of rails to guide movement of the container handling vehicles in a second direction which is perpendicular to the first direction. The first and sec...