ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,370,720, issued on July 29, was assigned to Oshkosh Corp. (Oshkosh, Wis.).

"Concrete sensor system" was invented by Bryan S. Datema (Rochester, Minn.), Cody D. Clifton (Oshkosh, Wis.), Jarrod M. Vagle (Oshkosh, Wis.), Xiang Gong (Oshkosh, Wis.) and Zhenyi Wei (Oshkosh, Wis.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A mixer vehicle includes a mixer drum, a first acceleration sensor, a second acceleration sensor, and a controller. The first acceleration sensor is configured to produce first acceleration signals and the second acceleration sensor is configured to measure accelerations within the mixer drum to produce second acceleration signals. The c...