US Patent Issued to Nimble Robotics on May 5 for "Storage systems and methods for robotic picking" (California Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,617,617, issued on May 5, was assigned to Nimble Robotics Inc. (San Francisco).

"Storage systems and methods for robotic picking" was invented by Simon Kalouche (San Francisco).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A robotic system that includes a storage structure, a container handling robot, and a manipulator robot is provided herein. The storage structure includes vertical members supporting a grid having a first set of rails and a second set of rails that collectively define grid spaces, and a plurality of storage containers arranged in vertical stacks within a respective one of the grid spaces. The container handling robot is arranged to move...