US Patent Issued to Novatron on March 17 for "Method for determining location and orientation of earthworks machine in worksite" (Finnish Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,577,758, issued on March 17, was assigned to Novatron Oy (Pirkkala, Finland).

"Method for determining location and orientation of earthworks machine in worksite" was invented by Tuomas Kovanen (Pirkkala, Finland), Antti Kolu (Pirkkala, Finland), Petri Moisio (Pirkkala, Finland), Mikko Vesanen (Pirkkala, Finland), Arto Anttila (Tampere, Finland) and Niko Haaraniemi (Pirkkala, Finland).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for determining a location and orientation of an earthworks machine in a worksite which comprises setting at least one positioning camera on the earthworks machine, determining from a worksite environment a plurality o...