US Patent Issued to Jungheinrich on Feb. 17 for "Method for dealing with obstacles in an industrial truck during driving operation thereof" (German Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,552,434, issued on Feb. 17, was assigned to Jungheinrich AG (Hamburg, Germany).

"Method for dealing with obstacles in an industrial truck during driving operation thereof" was invented by Steffen Quickert (Wildeshausen, Germany) and Tony Altmann (Brokstedt, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method and system for dealing with obstacles in an industrial truck during a driving operation. The surroundings of the industrial truck are detected on at least one side perpendicular to the locomotion direction using at least one sensor unit. A traveled path is detected using a routing unit. When an object is detected, its lateral distance an...