ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,578,738, issued on March 17, was assigned to Ocado Innovation Ltd. (Hatfield, Great Britain).
"Motion control of a robotic load handling device" was invented by Tiago Miguens Rijo Branco Jorge (Hatfield, Great Britain).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A load handling device for lifting and moving containers stacked in a storage system having a grid framework structure supporting a plurality of tracks arranged in a grid pattern, the load handling device including: a wheel assembly driven by a drive mechanism; a lifting device for lifting a storage container; a position detection detector; and a controller configured to control movement of t...