ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,246,956, issued on March 11, was assigned to Crown Equipment Corp. (New Bremen, Ohio).
"Pallet truck" was invented by Susanne Kuffner (Feldkirchen, Germany), Roland Muller (Feldkirchen, Germany), Bruce Xia (Jiangsu, China), Andy Chen (Jiangsu, China), Martin Ma (Jiangsu, China), Andrew Pan (Jiangsu, China), Terry Feng (Jiangsu, China) and Charlie Hu (Jiangsu, China).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A pallet truck includes a drive frame on which a drive wheel support is pivotably supported, a load frame, which is liftable with respect to the drive frame in a lifting direction, and a hydraulic lift module, which interconnects the drive frame...