ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,618,223, issued on May 5, was assigned to AIM Intelligent Machines Inc. (Redmond, Wash.).

"Autonomous control of powered earth-moving vehicles to rectify vehicle slippage" was invented by Kirk Roerig (Loveland, Colo.), Devin Lu (Sunnyvale, Calif.) and Jonathan D. Hurwitz (Seattle).

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 balancing of the vehicle(s) on non-level surfac...