ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,559,318, issued on Feb. 24, was assigned to ICAM S.R.L. (Putignano, Italy).

"Automated warehouse provided with refrigerators" was invented by Roberto Bianco (Putignano, Italy), Graziano Bianco (Putignano, Italy), Leonardo Antonio Veccaro (Putignano, Italy) and Lorenzo Domenico Mastrangelo (Putignano, Italy).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An automated warehouse has a plurality of loading units designed to carry respective articles accommodated in respective storage stations and transferred by a movement device to at least one picking/depositing station, which can be accessed, at least under given operating conditions, in order to retrieve/...