US Patent Issued to AutoStore Technology AS on Sept. 15 for "Method and vehicle for rescuing a stalled container handling vehicle" (Norwegian Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,734,707, issued on Sept. 15, was assigned to AutoStore Technology AS (Nedre Vats, Norway).

"Method and vehicle for rescuing a stalled container handling vehicle" was invented by Ragnar Stuhaug (Skjold, Norway), Ingvar Fagerland (Kolnes, Norway), Trond Austrheim (Etne, Norway) and Ole Alexander Maehle (Etne, Norway).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A service vehicle unit (SVU) is for manoeuvring a container handling vehicle that has stalled on an automated storage and retrieval system. The system includes a rail system having a first set of parallel rails arranged to guide movement of a container handling vehicle in a first direction (X) ac...