US Patent Issued to Auto Crane on Feb. 17 for "Method and apparatus for automating power take-offs for vehicles and equipment" (Oklahoma, Florida Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,552,387, issued on Feb. 17, was assigned to Auto Crane Co. (Tulsa, Okla.).

"Method and apparatus for automating power take-offs for vehicles and equipment" was invented by Bryan Wutzke (Bixby, Okla.), Sam Dallas (Collinsville, Okla.) and Phillip Chavez (Pompano Beach, Fla.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system and method of this disclosure control an on/off state of a power take-off by monitoring the power demand of a fluid power circuit that includes the power take-off and a piece of equipment connected to the power take-off. The power demand may be indicated by a pressure or temperature of a fluid power circuit, by a motion of the eq...