Montel Inc. announced today that the patent application for its SmartTrack had been accepted by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office. Granted for a term of 20 years, the patent was approved under the description “Ground embedded wire tracks for a shelving system having mobile shelf units”. “This is another very important milestone in the company's history,” reported Jerome Doucet, Vice President Sales & Marketing of Montel. “Since we steadily invest in R&D to make Montel an industry leader, it is our obligation to protect our intellectual property. Thus, when our products are granted a patent from the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office, a sense of pride and accomplishment is felt among our R&D professionals.”

Released as a prototype during the NeoCon World's Trade Fair in June 2003, the SmartTrack operates with Montel's high-density electrical mobile systems. Concealing the power wiring in the floor track, the SmartTrack eliminates dangling scissor-arms or pantographs between mobile units. As a result, an impressive 16.6% space capacity is created with the addition of a 7 th shelf on Montel's innovative SmartShelf 4-Post hybrid shelving system. Compared to the scissor arms or pantographs conventional electrical systems, Montel's end-users have the freedom to create aisles of various widths.