ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,584,286, issued on March 24, was assigned to J.C. Bamford Excavators Ltd. (Uttoxeter, Great Britain).

"Material handling machine" was invented by Richard Brindle (Uttoxeter, Great Britain), Paul Walsham (Uttoxeter, Great Britain), Jack Nash (Uttoxeter, Great Britain), Colin Goddard (Uttoxeter, Great Britain), Robin Scotchford (Uttoxeter, Great Britain), David Craig Panni (Uttoxeter, Great Britain), Michael Boyd Richardson (Uttoxeter, Great Britain), Paula Langley (Uttoxeter, Great Britain), Thomas Pritchard (Uttoxeter, Great Britain), Christopher David Price (Uttoxeter, Great Britain), Jonathan Kenred Bailey (Uttoxeter, Great Britain) and Sam de Berry (Uttoxeter, Great Britain).

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