US Patent Issued to Microsoft Technology Licensing on Oct. 27 for "Storage library system" (British Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 27 -- United States Patent no. 12,774,162, issued on Oct. 27, was assigned to Microsoft Technology Licensing LLC (Redmond, Wash.).

"Storage library system" was invented by David Sweeney (Cambridge, Great Britain), Andromachi Chatzieleftheriou (Cambridge, Great Britain), Antony Ian Taylor Rowstron (Cambridge, Great Britain), Hugh Williams (Cambridge, Great Britain), Richard John Black (Cambridge, Great Britain) and Russell Joyce (Cambridge, Great Britain).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A storage library system comprises a plurality of slots for storing items, a plurality of rails, and a robot for interacting with said items. The robot has at least two foot arrangements eac...