US Patent Issued to AutoStore Technology AS on Sept. 8 for "Optimizing container delivery vehicle task scheduling" (Norwegian Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 8 -- United States Patent no. 12,729,062, issued on Sept. 8, was assigned to AutoStore Technology AS (Nedre Vats, Norway).

"Optimizing container delivery vehicle task scheduling" was invented by Vegard Syre-Aaker (Asker, Norway).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method, control system and computer program for utilizing the operational capacity of container handling vehicles when assigned tasks of delivering or retrieving identified storage containers in an automatic storage and retrieval system are provided. The control system assigns tasks without deadlines, calculates end times and end positions of the container handling vehicles when the assigned tasks are completed, a...