US Patent Issued to Ocado Innovation on May 19 for "Apparatus for retrieving storage containers from a storage and retrieval system" (British Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,630,361, issued on May 19, was assigned to Ocado Innovation Ltd. (Hatfield, Great Britain).

"Apparatus for retrieving storage containers from a storage and retrieval system" was invented by Matthew Robert Whelan (Hatfield, Great Britain) and Wilhelm Karl Johannisson (Hatfield, Great Britain).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A load handling device for lifting and moving one or more containers stackable in a storage and retrieval system, the load handling device including plural modular sections arranged in a vertical stack, the modular sections including: a) a container lifting mechanism including a grabber device b) a wheel assembly; c) a wh...