US Patent Issued to JLG Industries on April 14 for "Control station for compact vehicles" (Italian, American Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,600,419, issued on April 14, was assigned to JLG Industries Inc. (McConnellsburg, Pa.).

"Control station for compact vehicles" was invented by Shane J. Mastronardi (Hagerstown, Md.), Ignacy Puszkiewicz (Hagerstown, Md.), Zeno Poltronieri (Nogara, Italy), Roberto Marchesini (Sanguinetto, Italy) and Matteo Lavagnini (Zevio, Italy).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A vehicle control station includes a hand rest and at least one micro-joystick positioned relative to the hand rest such that the hand rest is configured to locate an operator's hand fingers in position to operate the at least one micro-joystick. A function enable switch may be conf...