US Patent Issued to AutoStore Technology AS on Sept. 1 for "Container handling vehicle with first and second sections and with battery in second section" (Norwegian Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 1 -- United States Patent no. 12,722,894, issued on Sept. 1, was assigned to AutoStore Technology AS (Nedre Vats, Norway).

"Container handling vehicle with first and second sections and with battery in second section" was invented by Trond Austrheim (Etne, Norway).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A container handling vehicle for picking up storage containers from a three-dimensional grid of an underlying storage system includes a first set of wheels, for moving the vehicle along a first direction on a rail system in the grid; and a second set of wheels, for moving the vehicle along a second direction on the rail system in the grid, the second direction being perpendicular ...