ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,584,293, issued on March 24, was assigned to Doosan Bobcat North America Inc. (West Fargo, N.D.).

"Systems and methods for control of excavators and other power machines" was invented by John Hoaby (Lisbon, N.D.), Michael Schmidt (Bismarck, N.D.), Sawyer Hanson (Fargo, N.D.), Thomas Sagaser (Mandan, N.D.) and Daniel J. Krieger (Bismarck, N.D.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A power machine can include operator input devices and a control system configured to command movement of actuators based on operator inputs received from the operator input devices. Movement of one or more of the actuators can be commanded based on input at one or mo...