US Patent Issued to The Raymond on Jan. 28 for "Systems and methods for material handling vehicle travel control based on object detection systems" (New York Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 29 -- United States Patent no. 12,210,350, issued on Jan. 28, was assigned to The Raymond Corp. (Greene, N.Y.).

"Systems and methods for material handling vehicle travel control based on object detection systems" was invented by Robert P. McLachlan (Walton, N.Y.), Anthony V. D'Accolti (Manlius, N.Y.), Joseph T. Yahner (Chenango Forks, N.Y.) and Joel N. Sunny (Mineola, N.Y.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems and methods provide a travel control system to augment a supplemental object detection system of a material handling vehicle. Speed limits can be calculated for material handling vehicles based on properties of the vehicle, and a field of view of the object detect...