ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 27 -- United States Patent no. 12,774,129, issued on Oct. 27, was assigned to Ocado Innovation Ltd. (Hatfield, Great Britain).

"Storage system and storage container" was invented by Alastair Aubusson (Hatfield, Great Britain), Nicholas Mclarney (Hatfield, Great Britain), Ian Parks (Hatfield, Great Britain) and David Holt (Hatfield, Great Britain).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A storage container for storage of one or more items in a storage and retrieval system containing a track system including first and second sets of horizontal parallel tracks forming a grid pattern having a plurality of grid spaces and stacks of storage containers located beneath the track system, w...