ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,215,011, issued on Feb. 4, was assigned to Jungheinrich AG (Hamburg, Germany).

"Autonomously guided industrial truck having a pair of scanner units" was invented by Michael Schuler (Wakendorf, Germany), Helmut Lohmann (Gyhum, Germany), Holger Brunckhorst (Norderstedt, Germany) and Marcel Krenzin (Bad Bramstedt, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An autonomously guided industrial truck comprising a vehicle body and a pair of support arms extending from the vehicle body. The vehicle body defines a longitudinal direction and a width direction of the industrial truck in sections in plan view of the industrial truck. Each of the support ar...