US Patent Issued to JOSEPH VOEGELE on July 1 for "Road finishing machine and method for levelling a screed" (German Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,345,000, issued on July 1, was assigned to JOSEPH VOEGELE AG (Ludwigshafen/Rhein, Germany).

"Road finishing machine and method for levelling a screed" was invented by Ralf Weiser (Ladenburg, Germany), Philipp Stumpf (Heidelberg, Germany) and Stefan Simon (Neuhofen, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A road finishing machine comprises a screed for producing a paving layer on a subsoil on which the road finishing machine is movable in a laying direction, wherein the screed has a pulling arm fixed to the road finishing machine at a front pulling point by a levelling cylinder; at least one measuring means for performing a distance measure...