ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 31 -- United States Patent no. 12,590,802, issued on March 31, was assigned to Wacker Neuson Produktion GmbH & Co. KG (Reichertshofen, Germany).

"System for guiding an operator when compacting concrete" was invented by Christian Lange (Ingolstadt, Germany), Rudolf Berger (Gruenwald, Germany), Patrick Diller (Hohenwart, Germany) and Alto Weiskopf (Altomuenster, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system for guidance of an operator during concrete compaction using a concrete compaction device includes a planning device for storing planning data. The planning data is used to define locations in a defined region, at which concrete compaction is to be performed using th...