ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 8 -- United States Patent no. 12,729,101, issued on Sept. 8, was assigned to Terex South Dakota Inc. (Watertown, S.D.).

"Controller for an aerial lift vehicle" was invented by Maxwell Elliot Wallner (Bothell, Wash.), Harrison Jenkins (Bothell, Wash.), Christian Dube (Bothell, Wash.), Zachary Gilmor (Bothell, Wash.), Spencer Vickerman (Winlock, Wash.), Kishor Natarajan (Redmond, Wash.), Michael Beckman (Seattle), Jordan Steranka (Seattle), Robert Schoch (Boston), Jonah S. Griffith (Seattle), Zebrick Roach (Seattle), Ryan Conroy (Seattle) and John Andrew Johnson (Bainbridge Island, Wash.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A controller for a lift vehicle and a lift vehicle are...