US Patent Issued to Equipment Safety System on June 23 for "Crush avoidance device" (Australian Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,662,361, issued on June 23, was assigned to Equipment Safety System PTY LTD (Keysborough, Australia).

"Crush avoidance device" was invented by Ross Bowden (Cranbourne, Australia) and Kieren Grogan (Cranbourne, Australia).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A crush avoidance device 100,200,300 (n00) for attachment to an elevated work platform (EWP) 10. The EWP 10 includes a machine control system (MCS) 20 adapted to be operated by an operator to be located on an operator support 50 comprising an operator cage 52. The positioning and movement of the operator support 50 is operable to be controlled by the MCS 20 on or in the support 50. The EWP 1...