ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,637,338, issued on May 26, was assigned to The Raymond Corp. (Greene, N.Y.).
"Load position verification systems and methods" was invented by Erik C. Tracy (Johnson City, N.Y.), Joseph A. Weiss (Greene, N.Y.) and Curtis D. Richards (Greene, N.Y.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A load position verification system for detecting a load on a pair of forks of a material handling vehicle. The system includes a first arm extending parallel with a first fork of the material handling vehicle and a second arm, opposite the first arm, extending parallel with a second fork of the material handling vehicle. In one example, the system includes one or mo...