ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 2 -- United States Patent no. 12,486,646, issued on Dec. 2, was assigned to Sodex Innovations GmbH (Tschagguns, Austria).

"Method and device for measuring the performance of an earth-moving machine in soil, and earth-moving machine comprising a device of said type" was invented by Raphael Ott (Tschagguns, Austria), Ralf Pfefferkorn (Tschagguns, Austria) and Bernhard Gantner (Tschagguns, Austria).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method and a device measure the performance of an earth-moving machine in soil as well as to an earth-moving machine containing a device of this type. The working performance resulting from earth movements of such a machine, in particular while the...