US Patent Issued to COMBILIFT on March 31 for "Steering systems for lift trucks" (Irish Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 31 -- United States Patent no. 12,589,800, issued on March 31, was assigned to COMBILIFT (Monaghan Town, Ireland).

"Steering systems for lift trucks" was invented by Martin Mcvicar (County Monaghan, Ireland), Robert Moffett (County Monaghan, Ireland) and Mark Whyte (County Monaghan, Ireland).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A lift truck (10) has a pair of wheel assemblies (21) each of which is rotatable about a pivot point (24) relative to the chassis (12) of the truck through at least 90 degrees between a forward mode and a sideward mode. The wheel (18,20) of each assembly is laterally offset from the assembly's pivot point (24), causing the wheel to describe an arcuate p...