ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,275,625, issued on April 15, was assigned to Linde Material Handling GmbH (Aschaffenburg, Germany) and STILL GmbH (Hamburg, Germany).

"Hydraulic system for an industrial truck" was invented by Markus Schwab (Molln, Germany) and Ulrich Knechtel (Erlenbach a. Main, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A hydraulic system for an industrial truck with a lifting frame has at least one telescoping mast that can be raised and lowered in a stationary mast and a load handling means that can be raised and lowered in the telescoping mast. The hydraulic system has a free lift cylinder for raising and lowering the load handling means and at least one...