ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 7 -- United States Patent no. 12,673,823, issued on July 7, was assigned to TGW Logistics GmbH (Marchtrenk, Austria).

"Method and order-picking storage facility for storing and order-picking goods" was invented by Florian Forster (Bad Endorf, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "In a method for storing and picking stackable article carriers in a picking warehouse, transport loading aids are transported between a loading station with an automatically operated loading device, a storage zone and a removing station with an automatically operated unloading device using autonomously movable, driverless transport vehicles. The transport loading aids are loaded with article ca...