US Patent Issued to FREEPORT MINERALS on March 25 for "System and method for determining a dump location for a vehicle" (American, Brazilian Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,260,371, issued on March 25, was assigned to FREEPORT MINERALS Corp. (Phoenix).

"System and method for determining a dump location for a vehicle" was invented by Dana Geislinger (Chandler, Ariz.), Travis Gaddie (Phoenix), Margaret Alden Tinsley (Titusville, Fla.), Muneeb Alam (Alexandria, Va.), Steven Chad Richardson (Thatcher, Ariz.), Akaash Sanyal (Boston), Raquel Crossman (Mesa, Ariz.), Tianfang Ni (Boston), Cory A. Demieville (Scottsdale, Ariz.), Luke Gerdes (Framingham, Mass.), Robyn Freeman (Menlo Park, Calif.), Oleksandr Klesov (Lexington, Mass.) and Luciano Kiniti Issoe (Sao Paulo).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The method may co...