ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 1 -- United States Patent no. 12,722,526, issued on Sept. 1, was assigned to MANITOU BF (Ancenis, France).
"Work machine equipped with an electrical energy storage unit" was invented by Elie Kamba (Ancenis, France) and Stephane Oger (Ancenis, France).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A work machine including a frame, a propulsion structure, a load-handling apparatus, an electrical energy storage unit, a device for evaluating state of charge configured to determine a value V representative of the state of charge of said electrical energy storage unit, and a control unit configured to: compare the value V with a threshold V1; activate a mode in which movement and handling ope...