ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 10 -- United States Patent no. 12,411,505, issued on Sept. 9, 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 is provided for operating a materials handling vehicle comprising: monitoring, by a processor, vehicle acceleration in a direction of travel of the vehicle during a manual operation by an operator of the vehicle when the vehicle is traveling in a first vehicle orientation; collecting and storing, by the processor, data related to the monitored vehicl...