ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,258,062, issued on March 25, was assigned to Crown Equipment Corp. (New Bremen, Ohio).
"Industrial truck" was invented by Christoph Babel (Feldkirchen, Germany).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An industrial truck including a drive frame, a load frame liftable with respect to the drive frame, a drive frame cover at least partly covering the drive frame, and a load frame cover at least partly covering the load frame. The drive frame cover includes a curved portion overlapping a load frame cover. The curved portion includes a curvature aligned with a curved movement path of the load frame cover with respect to the drive frame cover. A cover ...