ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,693,676, issued on July 28, was assigned to Crown Equipment Corp. (New Bremen, Ohio).

"Systems and methods for relative pose sensing and field enforcement of materials handling vehicles using ultra-wideband radio technology" was invented by Ryan Estep (Auckland, New Zealand), Justin Bennett (Newburgh, Ind.), Mike Etienne Ciholas (Newburgh, Ind.), Ben Morelli (Auckland, New Zealand), Chad Lefeld (Coldwater, Ohio) and Trisha Marie Luthman (Covington, Ohio).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "According to the embodiments described herein, system and methods for determining relative pose of materials handling vehicles in an industrial environment ...