US Patent Issued to AutoStore Technology AS on Oct. 6 for "Vehicle-portable grid assessment device" (Norwegian Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,753,006, issued on Oct. 6, was assigned to AutoStore Technology AS (Nedre Vats, Norway).

"Vehicle-portable grid assessment device" was invented by Kjetil Gilje (Sandeid, Norway).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A vehicle-portable grid assessment device is capable of being lowered onto a rail system device for assessing a top of a framework structure of a storage grid in an automated storage and retrieval system. The framework structure includes a rail system. The rail system includes a first set of parallel rails arranged to guide movement of a container handling vehicle in a first direction across the top of the framework structure, and a s...