ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,654,939, issued on June 16, was assigned to OCADO INNOVATION Ltd. (Hatfield, Great Britain).
"Grid framework structure" was invented by William James Cogley (Hatfield, Great Britain), Benjamin Arthur Portnoy Noar (Hatfield, Great Britain), Stephen Millward (Hatfield, Great Britain), Shafayet Rabby (Hatfield, Great Britain), Nathan Gilson (Hatfield, Great Britain) and Andrew Ingram-Tedd (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 robotic load handling devices includes: a grid structure having a first set of parallel grid members extending in a first direction and a s...