ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 31 -- United States Patent no. 12,589,734, issued on March 31, was assigned to Jungheinrich AG (Hamburg, Germany).
"Method for dealing with obstacles in an industrial truck" was invented by Tony Altmann (Brokstedt, Germany), Sebastian Rockel (Norderstedt, Germany), Sven-Ole Heise (Osterronfeld, Germany), Steffen Quickert (Wildeshausen, Germany) and Christian Fischer (Boostedt, Germany).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for dealing with obstacles in an industrial truck, including detecting a current speed and a current steering angle of at least one steered wheel of the industrial truck using a speed sensor or a steering angle sensor. The method also includes calcul...