ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,663,267, issued on June 23, was assigned to MITSUBISHI LOGISNEXT Co. LTD. (Nagaokakyo, Japan).

"Bias estimation device, forklift, bias estimation method, and program" was invented by Katsumasa Kitajima (Tokyo), Yusuke Kinouchi (Tokyo), Masahiro Yamada (Tokyo), Takumi Fujita (Tokyo) and Takuya Akashi (Nagaokakyo, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A bias estimation device includes a determination unit configured to determine whether a forklift is stationary based on a measurement value from a first sensor configured to detect information regarding movement of the forklift and a measurement value from a second sensor configured to detect...