ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 27 -- United States Patent no. 12,774,047, issued on Oct. 27, was assigned to KASSBOHRER GELANDEFAHRZEUG AG (Laupheim, Germany).

"Civilian tracked vehicle" was invented by Tobias Berg (Mietingen, Germany), Tobias Pfetsch (Blaustein, Germany), Markus Schmied (Neu-Ulm, Germany), Jochen Kling (Neu-Ulm, Germany) and Roman Strobele (Staig, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A civilian tracked vehicle having a direction control device for manually controlling steering and travel direction functions of the tracked vehicle, and a control unit for controlling at least one operating function of the tracked vehicle. The direction control device and the control unit for the at l...