ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,259,724, issued on March 25, was assigned to Crown Equipment Corp. (New Bremen, Ohio).
"Adaptive acceleration for materials handling vehicle" was invented by Andreas Simon (Munich), Sebastian Theos (Vaterstetten, Germany) and Johannes Nachtigal (Munich).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for operating a materials handling vehicle is provided comprising: monitoring, by a controller, a first vehicle drive parameter corresponding to a first direction of travel of the vehicle during a first manual operation of the vehicle by an operator and concurrently monitoring, by the controller, a second vehicle drive parameter corresponding to a s...