US Patent Issued to AIM Intelligent Machines on June 23 for "Autonomous control of powered earth-moving vehicles to implement controlled vehicle stoppage and shutdown" (American, Czech Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,662,795, issued on June 23, was assigned to AIM Intelligent Machines Inc. (Redmond, Wash.).

"Autonomous control of powered earth-moving vehicles to implement controlled vehicle stoppage and shutdown" was invented by Kirk Roerig (Loveland, Colo.), Jonathan D. Hurwitz (Seattle) and Robert Kotlaba (Most, Czech Republic).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems and techniques are described for implementing autonomous control of powered earth-moving vehicles, including to automatically control movement of some or all of a powered earth-moving vehicle on a job site to conform with specified safety configuration data, such as to implement balancin...