ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 10 -- United States Patent no. 12,291,843, issued on May 6, was assigned to Doosan Bobcat North America Inc. (West Fargo, N.D.).
"Systems and methods for mini-loaders or other power machines" was invented by Karl Spears (Bismarck, N.D.), Shaun Riveland (Bismarck, N.D.), Thomas Tokach (Mandan, N.D.), Mitchell Pence (Bismarck, N.D.) and Andrew Kraft (Bismarck, N.D.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present disclosure provides systems and methods for power machines, including a mini-loader that includes a frame, an operator station positioned toward a rear end of the frame and configured to be used by an operator who is behind or on the rear end of the frame, and a power s...