US Patent Issued to Hyster-Yale Materials Handling on June 17 for "Lift truck having advantageous design elements" (Oregon Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,330,925, issued on June 17, was assigned to Hyster-Yale Materials Handling Inc. (Fairview, Ore.).

"Lift truck having advantageous design elements" was invented by Edmund Stilwell (Oregon City, Ore.), Ryan McDermott (Fairview, Ore.), Nicholas M. Draayer (Portland, Ore.), Dan Miller (Portland, Ore.), Mark Cheyne (Gresham, Ore.) and John Santiago (Portland, Ore.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Lift trucks are designed with a common chassis and can accommodate different form factors and different energy sources. According to one example, a chassis for a configurable sit-down counterbalanced forklift truck comprises a front side, a rear side, ...