ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,623,842, issued on May 12, was assigned to FIL ROBOTICS LTD (Binyamina, Israel).

"Handling garments in an automated warehouse" was invented by Guy Glass (Binyamina, Israel) and Reuven Della Torre (Ramat Gan, Israel).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Some embodiments are directed to a method for retrieving garments within an automatic warehouse. The method may include maintaining sets of garments in enclosures, the enclosures are positioned on shelfs of the automatic warehouse. Each set of garments is located within an enclosure of the enclosures, and is hung on hangers located within the enclosure; accessing a selected enclosure of the enclos...