ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,565,381, issued on March 3, was assigned to Jungheinrich AG (Hamburg, Germany).

"Block stacking arrangement" was invented by Michael Becker (Hainburg, Germany), Jorg Cavelius (Bad Vilbel, Germany), Timm Morawietz (Tholey-Uberroth, Germany) and Markus Liebhaber (Oberursel, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A block stacking arrangement includes multiple container holding spaces; a loading space arranged below the container holding spaces; and a frame arrangement between the container holding spaces and the loading space. The frame arrangement has node elements that are arranged at corners of the container holding spaces, and each pair...