ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,686,978, issued on July 21, was assigned to JOSEPH VOEGELE AG (Ludwigshafen/Rhein, Germany).
"Leveling controller adaption by ground profile analysis" was invented by Christian Pawlik (Neustadt, Germany), Martin Buschmann (Neustadt, Germany), Ralf Weiser (Ladenburg, Germany), Philipp Stumpf (Heidelberg, Germany), Stefan Simon (Neuhofen, Germany) and Tobias Noll (Gossersweiler-Stein, Germany).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for adapting a leveling control of a road finishing machine comprises: detecting first ground profile data of a first ground profile of a foundation in a surrounding area of the road finishing machine at point i...