ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,583,458, issued on March 24, was assigned to Camso Inc. (Magog, Canada).

"Track drive mode management system and methods" was invented by Alain Lussier (St-Francois-Xavier-de-Brompton, Canada), Francois Leblanc (Magog, Canada) and Patrice Boily (St-Catherine-de-Hatley, Canada).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for managing a drive mode of a tracked vehicle, comprising the step of reading an output of a sensor and in response to the output of the sensor performing a control action to manage the drive mode of the vehicle."

The patent was filed on Feb. 1, 2021, under Application No. 17/163,783.

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