ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 29 -- United States Patent no. 12,210,353, issued on Jan. 28, was assigned to Crown Equipment Corp. (New Bremen, Ohio).
"Fleet management system" was invented by Timothy A. Wellman (Coldwater, Ohio) and Dean E. Winner (Celina, Ohio).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system that controls an industrial vehicle responsive to encountering working environment tags comprises a tag reader mounted on an industrial vehicle. Further, a tag is incorporated into a harness that is to be worn by an operator of the industrial vehicle. An information processing device on the industrial vehicle is communicably coupled to the tag reader and comprises a processor that is programmed to receiv...