US Patent Issued to Palfinger on June 16 for "Crane, a vehicle with a crane, method to operate a crane and circuitry to determine a use of a crane" (Austrian Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,654,999, issued on June 16, was assigned to Palfinger AG (Bergheim bei Salzburg, Austria).

"Crane, a vehicle with a crane, method to operate a crane and circuitry to determine a use of a crane" was invented by Ewald Mathe (Elixhausen, Austria), Mario Hufnagl (Oberndorf bei Salzburg, Austria) and Clemens Rosenlechner (Salzburg, Austria).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A crane (100) comprises a boom (110) rotatable about a pivot (120) between a crane base (130) and the boom (110) and a winch arrangement (150) mounted movable with respect to the boom (110). A load weighting element (160) is mounted between the boom (110) and the winch arrange...