ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,630,366, issued on May 19, was assigned to Dematic GmbH (Heusenstamm, Germany).

"System for storage of goods carriers" was invented by Hartwig Reckemeier (Rodgau, Germany), Nicolas Michels (Frankfurt, Germany), Sebastian Muller (Dieburg, Germany), Edwin Prince Joseph (Frankfurt, Germany), Traian Gligor (Krombach, Germany) and Matthias Wehner (Neu-Isenburg, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system for storage of goods carriers with a rack having storage shelves for the goods carriers on multiple levels, with a rack-servicing machine for storage of goods carriers into the storage shelves and for discharge of goods carriers from the s...