US Patent Issued to POLARIS INDUSTRIES on Aug. 5 for "Automatic vehicle control" (Alabama, Washington, Oregon, Minnesota, Wisconsin Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,377,801, issued on Aug. 5, was assigned to POLARIS INDUSTRIES INC. (Medina, Minn.).

"Automatic vehicle control" was invented by Aidan B. Shaughnessy (Madison, Ala.), Robert Be Puckette (Brush Prairie, Wash.), Steven B. Elgee (Portland, Ore.), Timothy P. Norstad (Turtle Lake, Wis.), Carl A. Turner (Portland, Ore.), Brenden D. Bungert (Chisago City, Minn.) and Jacob P. Horky (Shoreview, Minn.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Techniques for automatic control of a vehicle are disclosed. The vehicle may include a removable input device having various modes of operation. For example, a coupled mode of operation may control the vehicle when an ope...