US Patent Issued to Outrider Technologies on May 26 for "Autonomous path variation to distribute weight and wear" (Colorado, Oregon Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,637,062, issued on May 26, was assigned to Outrider Technologies Inc. (Brighton, Colo.).

"Autonomous path variation to distribute weight and wear" was invented by Peter James (Golden, Colo.), Andrew Smith (Golden, Colo.), Lawrence Klein (Bend, Ore.) and Jeremy Nett (Littleton, Colo.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A path for an autonomous tractor to move a trailer from a start spot to an ending spot has at least one path segment and a variation indicator that indicates a path variant for the autonomous tractor to follow for the path segment. The autonomous tractor follows the path variant to reduce wear caused by repetitive use of the same...