ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,441,590, issued on Oct. 14, was assigned to Konecranes Global Corp. (Hyvinkaa, Finland).
"Method for controlling a load-handling crane, and load-handling crane" was invented by Daniel Lorenzen (Wetter, Germany), Holger Freitag (Bochum, Germany), Asaf Topkaya (Wetter, Germany), Giuliano Persico (Wetter, Germany) and Bilal Moussawi (Bochum, Germany).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for controlling a load-handling crane, to the load-bearing means of which a handling device is secured, wherein a sensor system ascertains position data of a part secured to the load-bearing means, and a controller is connected to the sensor system in a si...