US Patent Issued to Crown Equipment on July 14 for "Materials handling and other vehicles with functional responses to runtime calculation" (Chinese, German Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 14 -- United States Patent no. 12,679,708, issued on July 14, was assigned to Crown Equipment Corp. (New Bremen, Ohio).

"Materials handling and other vehicles with functional responses to runtime calculation" was invented by Roland Muller (Feldkirchen, Germany), Mingzhi Ma (Jiangsu, China) and Bin Feng Sha (Jiang Su, China).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Battery management systems, removable battery assemblies with integrated battery management systems, and vehicles are provided for implementing the various runtime calculations disclosed herein. A vehicle, which may be a materials handling vehicle, is provided comprising a drive subsystem, a removable battery assembly, an...