ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 18 -- United States Patent no. 12,327,440, issued on June 10, was assigned to HEXAGON GEOSYSTEMS SERVICES AG (Heerbrugg, Switzerland).

"Method and system for on-site testing of an off-road vehicle intervention system" was invented by Xiao Ru (Lucerne, Switzerland), Peter Spring (Thalwil, Switzerland), Linus Arno (Lucerne, Switzerland), Johannes Huber (Walchwil, Switzerland) and Fabien Kritter (Ruschlikon, Switzerland).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An on-site test facility and method for validation of an off-road vehicle intervention system onboard an utility vehicle, for example at a mine, using a testing area in the field with a test lane and a computer unit configured ...