ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,703,263, issued on Aug. 11, was assigned to PRINOTH S.P.A. (Vipiteno, Italy).
"Crawler vehicle and method for managing the operation of said crawler vehicle" was invented by Andreas Muigg (Vipiteno, Italy) and Martin Kirchmair (Vipiteno, Italy).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A crawler vehicle has a frame; a first energy storage assembly configured to be removed from the crawler vehicle and to be replaced by a further first energy storage assembly; a propulsion system configured to be powered by the first energy storage assembly; a connection interface configured to selectively and relatively quickly connect/disconnect the first energy sto...