ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,559,310, issued on Feb. 24, was assigned to OCADO INNOVATION Ltd. (Hatfield, Great Britain).
"Grid framework structure" was invented by Benjamin Arthur Portnoy Noar (Hatfield, Great Britain), Pawel Karolinczak (Hatfield, Great Britain), Andrew Ingram-Tedd (Hatfield, Great Britain), Stephen Millward (Hatfield, Great Britain) and Christopher James Paton (Hatfield, Great Britain).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A grid framework structure, configured to support one or more load handling devices, includes: a first set of grid members extending in a first direction and a second set of grid members extending in a second direction, to form a grid ...