US Patent Issued to TGW Logistics on April 21 for "Rack storage system with improved transport vehicle lifting device" (Austrian Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,606,373, issued on April 21, was assigned to TGW Logistics GmbH (Marchtrenk, Austria).

"Rack storage system with improved transport vehicle lifting device" was invented by Johannes Schauer (Sankt Marienkirchen an der Polsenz, Austria), Stefan Glueck (Offenhausen, Austria) and Thomas Wimmer (Niederthalheim, Austria).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A rack storage system includes first and second storage racks, a rack aisle therebetween, rack guide tracks arranged in pairs in driving planes above each other, a transport vehicle displaceable in the rack aisle, a transport vehicle lifting device with a vertically extending guide frame and a li...