ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,600,609, issued on April 14, was assigned to Mitsubishi Logisnext Americas Inc. (Houston).
"Hose supports for facilitating the assembly of masts for material handling vehicles and related methods" was invented by Victor M. Diaz Jr. (Schaumburg, Ill.), Mark McGee (Marengo, Ill.) and Hidekazu Yasukochi (North Las Vegas, Nev.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "This disclosure includes hose supports for masts of material handling vehicles and methods of using the same. Some hose supports include a lower linear portion having a length, an upper linear portion that has a length larger than the length of the lower linear portion and is angularly d...