US Patent Issued to TGW Logistics on March 17 for "Method for the computer-aided processing of a status change of a goods carrier in a storage and picking system, and storage and picking system" (Austrian Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,579,505, issued on March 17, was assigned to TGW Logistics GmbH (Marchtrenk, Australia).

"Method for the computer-aided processing of a status change of a goods carrier in a storage and picking system, and storage and picking system" was invented by Markus Winkler (Altmuenster, Austria) and Pascal Moller (Unterweitersdorf, Austria).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "In a method for the computer-aided processing of a status change of an article carrier in a picking system, a storage and conveying region of the picking system, along with article carriers located thereupon, are virtualized in a computer. Pieces of status change information rela...