ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 20 -- United States Patent no. 12,529,193, issued on Jan. 20, was assigned to MOBA Mobile Automation AG (Limburg, Germany).
"Sensor system" was invented by David Shelstad (Peachtree City, Ga.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Sensor system for a construction machine, especially a road construction machine or paving machine, including: an optical detector which is arrangeable on the construction machine and configured to scan the underground in a predetermined angle so as to obtain measurement data describing one or more intensity values and/or one or more distance values plotted over the predetermined angle and a processor which is configured to analyse the measurement data...