ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 2 -- United States Patent no. 12,485,768, issued on Dec. 2, was assigned to Mitsubishi Logisnext Europe Oy (Jarvenpaa, Finland).

"Control of torque in electric lift trucks" was invented by Janne Laaksonen (Riihimaki, Finland).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present invention relates to a method for controlling a torque generated by at least one electric motor of an electric lift truck, the method comprises: detecting a fulfilment of at least one criterion when the torque of the at least one electric motor is in a first mode, the fulfilment of the at least one criterion indicating insufficient amount of the torque in to maintain a motion of the electric lift truck, trig...