US Patent Issued to STOW INTERNATIONAL on June 23 for "Automated small parts shuttle racking system" (Belgian Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,662,311, issued on June 23, was assigned to STOW INTERNATIONAL NV (Spiere-Helkijn, Belgium).

"Automated small parts shuttle racking system" was invented by Luc Vandemergel (Oostkamp, Belgium).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An automated small parts shuttle racking system includes a multitude of rows of racks, between which one or more aisles are provided. The aisle is adapted to have a shuttle propelling in a horizontal propelling direction. The racks include uprights, and the system further has more than one horizontal tracks and one or more vertical tracks. One or more of the vertical tracks is detachably connected to at least one uprigh...