US Patent Issued to GOMACO on March 24 for "Paving machine with smart steering control" (Iowa Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,583,516, issued on March 24, was assigned to GOMACO Corp. (Ida Grove, Iowa).

"Paving machine with smart steering control" was invented by Thomas C. Farr (Ida Grove, Iowa), Raymond J. Bumann III (Ida Grove, Iowa) and Chad M. Schaeding (Ida Grove, Iowa).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A smart steering control system a paving or texturing machine receives path elements corresponding to current and future positions of the machine. By comparing the current and future elements, an expected completion time is derived for exiting the current position and entering the future position; the smart steering control system synchronizes adjustments of t...