ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,752,869, issued on Oct. 6, was assigned to NORDIC TRACTION OY (Loimaa, Finland).

"Forest machine track" was invented by Renoldus Broens (Salo, Finland).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present invention relates to a forest machine track that comprises a plurality of connecting elements having a first end and a second end, a plurality of outer tubes arranged in parallel and spaced apart from each other, and a plurality of means for storing and releasing mechanical energy, each of the plurality of means for storing and releasing mechanical energy being arranged in connection with one of the plurality of outer tubes. In the forest machine t...