US Patent Issued to Crown Equipment on March 18 for "Tiller head" (German, Chinese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,252,381, issued on March 18, was assigned to Crown Equipment Corp. (New Bremen, Ohio).

"Tiller head" was invented by Susanne Kuffner (Feldkirchen, Germany), Jim Kraimer (Feldkirchen, Germany), Roland Muller (Feldkirchen, Germany), Luying Sun (Jiangsu, China) and Christoph Babel (Feldkirchen, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A tiller head for an industrial truck is shown which comprises a central portion, a left handle portion that is attached to a left side of the central portion and a right handle portion that is attached to a right side of the central portion, which is opposite to its left side, and an actuating element. The han...