US Patent Issued to OCADO INNOVATION on Feb. 17 for "Multi-function inventory handling station assembly" (British Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,552,604, issued on Feb. 17, was assigned to OCADO INNOVATION Ltd. (Hatfield, Great Britain).

"Multi-function inventory handling station assembly" was invented by Martyn Bates (Hatfield, Great Britain), Andrew Ingram-Tedd (Hatfield, Great Britain), Laura Maestro (Hatfield, Great Britain), Lewis Goddard (Hatfield, Great Britain) and Keith Habben (Hatfield, Great Britain).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An inventory handling station assembly for a storage and retrieval system is disclosed. A grid framework structure includes a plurality of upright columns for one or more containers to be stacked, the plurality of upright columns being interco...