US Patent Issued to Crown Equipment on Nov. 4 for "Industrial vehicle distance and range measurement device calibration" (New Zealander, German Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,459,796, issued on Nov. 4, was assigned to Crown Equipment Corp. (New Bremen, Ohio).

"Industrial vehicle distance and range measurement device calibration" was invented by Karan Purohit (Auckland, New Zealand), Timothy Fanselow (Auckland, New Zealand) and Sebastian Theos (Vaterstetten, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Processes and systems for calibrating a distance and range measurement device coupled to an industrial vehicle are disclosed. The calibration requires no physical movement of the distance and range measurement device. Instead, actual measurements from the device are used with nominal detection zones and nominal measure...