ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 8 -- United States Patent no. 12,729,490, issued on Sept. 8, was assigned to Roadtec Inc. (Chattanooga, Tenn.).
"System and method for automatically guiding a road construction machine" was invented by Christopher Todd Avans (Sale Creek, Tenn.) and Ramon Pujol Guim (Chattanooga, Tenn.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method and system for guiding a road construction machine using a machine guidance system comprising at least one each of a machine position sensor, a laser-based sensor, and a processing unit. The machine position sensor first measures a position of a road construction machine relative to a road boundary condition. The laser-based sensor then captures a se...