US Patent Issued to VI-GRADE on July 21 for "Apparatus for simulating driving a land vehicle" (Italian Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,688,789, issued on July 21, was assigned to VI-GRADE GMBH (Darmstadt, Germany).

"Apparatus for simulating driving a land vehicle" was invented by Diego Minen (Udine, Italy), Francesco La Mura (Saronno, Italy), Hermes Giberti (Bergamo, Italy) and Giovanni Todeschini (Lecco, Italy).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An apparatus for simulating driving a land vehicle, including: a base provided with a flat support surface on which a mobile platform is positioned, a first element for moving the mobile platform, a driving position associated with the mobile platform, and a second element for moving the driving position with respect to the mobile p...