US Patent Issued on Dec. 30 for "Methods, devices, and systems for improving material handler efficiency" (South Carolina Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 31 -- United States Patent no. 12,511,617, issued on Dec. 30.

"Methods, devices, and systems for improving material handler efficiency" was invented by Steven Kruger (Simpsonville, S.C.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Disclosed herein are methods, devices, and systems for improving efficiency of operators of powered industrial trucks (PITs) during material handling. According to one embodiment, a method is implemented on a localized computing system mechanically coupled with a PIT. The method includes providing map overlay data to a human machine interface (HMI) communicatively coupled with the localized computing system; receiving, over a wireless network, pickup locatio...