ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 2 -- United States Patent no. 12,487,596, issued on Dec. 2, was assigned to AIM Intelligent Machines Inc. (Redmond, Wash.).

"Autonomous control of operations of earth-moving vehicles using data from simulated vehicle operation" was invented by Adam Sadilek (Monroe, Wash.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems and techniques are described for implementing autonomous control of earth-moving construction and/or mining vehicles, including to automatically determine and control autonomous movement of part or all of one or more such vehicles (e.g., a vehicle's arm(s) and/or attachment(s), such as a digging bucket, claw, hammer, blade, etc.) to move materials or perform other a...