ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 13 -- United States Patent no. 12,523,012, issued on Jan. 13, was assigned to AIM Intelligent Machines Inc. (Redmond, Wash.).
"Configurable system for layered system control of earth-moving construction and/or mining vehicles" was invented by Robert Kotlaba (Most, Czech Republic), Jonathan D. Hurwitz (Seattle) and Colin Szechy (Bellevue, Wash.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems and techniques are described for a configurable system for layered control of earth-moving construction and/or mining vehicles. For example, the systems and techniques may inject signals into a variety of physical button and lever conditions to allow for a machine emulator to virtually mimic t...