US Patent Issued to Toshiba Global Commerce Solutions on March 17 for "Multidirectional robotic shelf restocking system" (Canadian, American Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,577,044, issued on March 17, was assigned to Toshiba Global Commerce Solutions Inc. (Durham, N.C.).

"Multidirectional robotic shelf restocking system" was invented by Brad M. Johnson (Raleigh, N.C.), John Pistone (Cary, N.C.) and James Frank (Montreal).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems and methods of multidirectional robotic shelf restocking are performed. In one exemplary embodiment, a multidirectional robotic shelf restocking apparatus is configured to operate in first and second adjoining regions. The first region being above or below the second region defined by opposing stocked shelf structures. The apparatus includes a vertica...