ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,600,608, issued on April 14, was assigned to The Raymond Corp. (Greene, N.Y.).

"Assistance systems and methods for a material handling vehicle" was invented by Joseph A. Weiss (Greene, N.Y.), Gregory W. Smiley (Greene, N.Y.) and Joshua T. Smith (Chenango Forks, N.Y.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems and methods provide assistance to an operator of a material handling vehicle. A training reinforcement assistance device has a frame supporting an optical system, the optical system being configured to display virtual content on a display, and to enable viewing of at least a portion of a surrounding environment; an imager operably coupl...