ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 31 -- United States Patent no. 12,590,432, issued on March 31, was assigned to HAMM AG (Tirschenreuth, Germany).

"Soil processing machine and method for operating a soil processing machine" was invented by Josef Dagner (Altenstadt, Germany), Stefan Braunschlager (Barnau, Germany), Thomas Klein (Mitterteich, Germany) and Michael Sperber (Waldsassen, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A soil processing machine, in particular a soil compactor, includes a hydraulic steering system with at least one steering element actuated with pressurized fluid and an electrohydraulic pressurized fluid source with at least one steering pressurized fluid pump that can be driven by at l...