US Patent Issued to LEICA GEOSYSTEMS TECHNOLOGY on June 24 for "System for handling the seamless transition of breaklines during an excavation task" (Swiss, Danish Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,338,602, issued on June 24, was assigned to LEICA GEOSYSTEMS TECHNOLOGY A/S (Odense, Denmark).

"System for handling the seamless transition of breaklines during an excavation task" was invented by Lars Kjaergaard (Odense SV, Denmark), Sean Costello (Altstatten, Switzerland) and Pierluigi Micarelli (St. Gallen, Switzerland).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A controller for an excavating machine, comprising a tool, an arm, a set of sensors and a chassis. The sensors being configured to provide data regarding a pose of the tool. The controller comprising an input interface and a computing unit. The input interface is configured to receive oper...