US Patent Issued to Great Plains Manufacturing on June 10 for "Loader with improved arm path" (Kansas, Nebraska Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 18 -- United States Patent no. 12,325,971, issued on June 10, was assigned to Great Plains Manufacturing Inc. (Salina, Kan.).

"Loader with improved arm path" was invented by Jason Carlson (Lindsborg, Kan.), John M. Relph (Abilene, Kan.), Matthew Shobe (Papillion, Neb.) and Jeff Welsh (Abilene, Kan.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A compact utility loader compact utility loader comprising a frame, a first track and a second track positioned on either side of the frame, and a pair of loader arms. The loader arms are configured to couple with an attachment via a hitch plate and a hitch pin. The compact utility loader is configured such that as the loader arms are raised and ...