US Patent Issued to AutoStore Technology AS on Sept. 8 for "Expansion joint for connecting a first region and a second region of a rail system" (Norwegian Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 8 -- United States Patent no. 12,729,060, issued on Sept. 8, was assigned to AutoStore Technology AS (Nedre Vats, Norway).

"Expansion joint for connecting a first region and a second region of a rail system" was invented by Trond Austrheim (Etne, Norway), Borge Bekken (Haugesund, Norway) and Martin Fitje (Etne, Norway).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A storage system includes a first region and a second region of a rail system. Each of the first region and the second region has rails with a profiled upper surface that define one or more tracks for supporting container handling vehicles, and each rail of at least one pair of parallel rails of the first region is connected ...