ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 23 -- United States Patent no. 12,367,367, issued on July 22, was assigned to Crown Equipment Corp. (New Bremen, Ohio).
"Indirect electronic badge tracking" was invented by Lewis H. Manci (New Bremen, Ohio), Juergen Buchmann (Pliening, Germany), Andreas Simon (Munich) and Sebastian Theos (AKA Sick) (Vaterstetten, Germany).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A control system for an industrial vehicle includes a badge communicator and an information linking device. The badge communicator has a transceiver for short range communication with electronic badges that are within a fixed short range of the badge communicator, defining a first zone. The information linking device is pro...