ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 20 -- United States Patent no. 12,528,413, issued on Jan. 20, was assigned to Volvo Truck Corp. (Gothenburg, Sweden).

"Lifting step assembly for an industrial vehicle" was invented by Uday Patil (Gadhinglaj Kolhapur Maharashtra, India).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A lifting step assembly for helping a user entering a cabin of an industrial vehicle, the lifting step assembly comprising a first step member configured for selectively moving along a first translation direction between a first position and a second position, so that the user can be lifted from the first position to the second position, a second step member configured for being moved between a retracted posit...