US Patent Issued to Crown Equipment on March 31 for "Truck-tablet interface" (Ohio, Missouri Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 31 -- United States Patent no. 12,589,978, issued on March 31, was assigned to Crown Equipment Corp. (New Bremen, Ohio).

"Truck-tablet interface" was invented by Brent Grothaus (Delphos, Ohio), Dean Winner (Celina, Ohio), Anthony Castaneda (Troy, Ohio), Dan Walton (St. Louis), Ray Denison (Bradford, Ohio), Allen Wagner (Troy, Ohio) and Jamison Frady (Sidney, Ohio).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A materials handling vehicle comprises a distributed processor system including a vehicle network that facilitates an exchange of information with vehicle electronic components, and a distributed multi-processor vehicle control architecture. The distributed multi-processor vehicle...