ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 11 -- United States Patent no. 12,546,523, issued on Feb. 10, was assigned to Kassbohrer Gelandefahrzeug AG (Laupheim, Germany).
"System and method for maintaining a snow piste" was invented by Andreas Behmuller (Illerkirchberg, Germany) and Claudius Henger (Achstetten, Germany).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A computer-aided method for maintaining a snow piste, according to which state data relating to the snow piste are captured in a time-dependent manner. The state data include snow constitution data which depend on a constitution of a piste surface of the snow piste, a prediction model for the state of the snow piste at at least one point in time in the future is calc...