ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 14 -- United States Patent no. 12,680,323, issued on July 14, was assigned to SANY AUTOMOBILE MANUFACTURING Co. LTD. (Changsha, China).

"Method for controlling outrigger of pump truck, pump truck and method for controlling pump truck" was invented by Tingting Tang (Changsha, China), Zhuo Huang (Changsha, China) and Wei Liu (Changsha, China).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Disclosed are a method for controlling an outrigger of a pump truck, a method for controlling the pump truck and the pump truck. The method for controlling the outrigger of the pump truck of the present disclosure includes: obtaining a first tilting angle of an entire pump truck after a boom is unfolded; ...