ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 13 -- United States Patent no. 12,522,292, issued on Jan. 13, was assigned to AIRMAN Corp. (Niigata, Japan).
"Travel operation device for crawler aerial work vehicle" was invented by Masaki Hiwatashi (Niigata, Japan), Isao Masuda (Niigata, Japan) and Norihide Ikarashi (Niigata, Japan).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A travel operation device for a crawler aerial work vehicle equipped with an operating stick 20, the operating stick 20 having an operating stick body 21, a left-swivel switch 24, a right-swivel switch 25, and an enable switch 22, these switches are arranged at positions on the operating stick body 21 so that the enable switch 22, the left-swivel switch 24 and/...