ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 23 -- United States Patent no. 12,421,038, issued on Sept. 23, was assigned to Signode Industrial Group LLC (Tampa, Fla.).
"Storage system and methods" was invented by Rafael Salichs (Madrid) and Juan Carlos Tamayo (Saragossa, Spain).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A storage system includes a rack with a plurality of layers, each layer including an aisle and a plurality of rows extending from the aisle defining storage locations for items. A shuttle usable with the rack includes a first cart movable along the aisle and a second cart configured to be carriable by the first cart and to be movable along a row. The second cart is configured to carry an item between the first ...