ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 7 -- United States Patent no. 12,595,124, issued on April 7, was assigned to MODULA S.P.A. (Casalgrande, Italy).
"Elevator locking device for a vertical automatic warehouse" was invented by Franco Stefani (Sassuolo, Italy) and Stefano Cassani (Imola, Italy).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An automatic warehouse (1), comprising: a frame (2), defining a prismatic-shaped containment volume (V), with a vertical axis (X); an elevator (3), arranged inside the containment volume (V), comprising a flat bed (4), movable along a vertical direction; a locking device (101), interposed between the frame (2) and the elevator (3), which is operable between a locking configuration, in wh...