US Patent Issued to Ocado Innovation on June 16 for "Automated storage and retrieval system" (British Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,654,942, issued on June 16, was assigned to Ocado Innovation Ltd. (Hatfield, Great Britain).

"Automated storage and retrieval system" was invented by Lars Sverker Ture Lindbo (Hatfield, Great Britain).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An automated storage and retrieval system includes a storage area distributed over vertically stacked storage levels having an in-bound area and an out-bound area; movable carriages on which items are placed; and autonomous transport vehicles, configured to move carriages in the storage area. A multi-level vertical loop conveyor includes a drive member; spaced apart platforms coupled to the drive member, spaced...