ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,698,155, issued on Aug. 4, was assigned to Knapp AG (Hart bei Graz, Austria).
"Method for storing or retrieving storage aids" was invented by Wolfgang Puntigam (Hart bei Graz, Austria), Franz Mathi (Hart bei Graz, Austria) and Christoph Gailberger (Hart bei Graz, Austria).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method of storing or retrieving storage aids with a shuttle in a rack of an automated storage system, the rack including several rack supports placed on a ground and several storage levels including storage spaces, includes moving underneath the rack with the shuttle; a vertical ascent of the shuttle on adjacent rack supports; storing the ...