US Patent Issued to MANITOU BF on Feb. 10 for "Load handling machine, mechanical shovel, bucket loader or the like, and method for controlling a load handling machine" (French Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 11 -- United States Patent no. 12,545,564, issued on Feb. 10, was assigned to MANITOU BF (Ancenis, France).

"Load handling machine, mechanical shovel, bucket loader or the like, and method for controlling a load handling machine" was invented by Sylvain Cadou (Ancenis, France) and Philippe Lebreton (Ancenis, France).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The invention relates to a machine (1) for handling loads (24), comprising: -a frame (2) equipped with a driving station (15), -a load handling system (4) carried by the frame, a device (6) for controlling the load handling system (4), wherein this control device (6) that can be manually actuated by an operator comprises a manual...