ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 27 -- United States Patent no. 12,774,901, issued on Oct. 27, was assigned to TECHNOLOGICAL RESOURCES Pty Ltd. (Melbourne, Australia).

"Method and apparatus for incremental mapping of haul roads" was invented by Konstantin M. Seiler (Sydney).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for issuing updates of a map in respect of a geographical area, comprising clusters of vehicle positions with connections between clusters, comprised of a number of points allocated thereto, corresponding to respective ones of the vehicles at respective times, operating a data communications assembly to establish data communications with each of the vehicles via a data communications network rec...