ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,259,730, issued on March 25, was assigned to Crown Equipment Corp. (New Breman, Ohio).
"Automating control of an industrial vehicle" was invented by Sebastian Theos (Vaterstetten, Germany), Andreas Simon (Munich), Alexander Peters (Bad Feilenbach, Germany) and Christian Molnar (Schwindegg, Germany).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A process for automating control of an industrial vehicle based on location comprises scanning an environment, by using an optical scanner affixed to the industrial vehicle. A marker defined by a series of tags is identified by recursively receiving a reflection of the optical scanner; determining if the reflecti...