US Patent Issued to Illinois Tool Works on July 14 for "Systems and methods for measurement of a vehicle load" (Minnesota Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 14 -- United States Patent no. 12,680,860, issued on July 14, was assigned to Illinois Tool Works Inc..

"Systems and methods for measurement of a vehicle load" was invented by Andrew Sukalski (Fairmont, Minn.), Thomas H. Johnson (Winnebago, Minn.) and Kevin Detert (Fairmont, Minn.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present disclosure provides an onboard object measurement system for a vehicle, such as a lift truck. The vehicle may have one or more sensors incorporated thereon, such as within one or more load handling fixtures. Control circuitry associated with the vehicle and/or the sensors is configured to receive data from the first sensor corresponding to changes in f...