US Patent Issued to EUROFORK on Nov. 3 for "Automated warehouse with four-way vehicle" (Italian Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,780,540, issued on Nov. 3, was assigned to EUROFORK S.P.A. (Roletto, Italy).

"Automated warehouse with four-way vehicle" was invented by Alessandro Garola (Cavour, Italy) and Maurizio Traversa (Turin, Italy).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An automated warehouse having pairs of parallel first rails and pairs of parallel second rails, perpendicular to the first rails, and one or more four-way vehicles is provided. Along the first and second rails are arranged respective optically readable representations of position data that univocally identify the absolute positions of points, within the automated warehouse, and along the first and second ...