ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,577,047, issued on March 17, was assigned to Ocado Innovation Ltd. (Hatfield, Great Britain).
"Gripping device" was invented by Richard Farr (Hatfield, Great Britain).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A gripping device for being suspended from a load handling device for lifting and moving containers stacked in stacks in a grid storage structure including a plurality of tracks arranged in a grid pattern above the stacks of containers. The gripping device including a frame having a top side and a bottom side. The frame has a substantially downwardly extending peripheral wall defining at least one opening through the top side and bottom side o...