ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,618,435, issued on May 5, was assigned to Ocado Innovation Ltd. (Hatfield, Great Britain).
"Glide bearing assembly" was invented by Alexandros Matsagkos (Hatfield, Great Britain) and Arvid Hallje (Hatfield, Great Britain).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The disclosure relates to a load-handling device for lifting and moving storage containers stacked in a storage structure. The load-handling device includes a body mounted on a first set of wheels to engage a first set of parallel tracks and a second set of wheels to engage with a second set of parallel tracks. A direction-change assembly is configured to raise or lower the first and second s...