ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,252,063, issued on March 18, was assigned to PRINOTH S.P.A. (Vipiteno, Italy).
"Crawler vehicle for ski runs and method of displaying information for such a snow crawler vehicle" was invented by Martin Kirchmair (Vipiteno, Italy), Andreas Muigg (Vipiteno, Italy), Richard Casartelli (Vipiteno, Italy) and Alberto Paoletti (Vipiteno, Italy).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A crawler vehicle for ski runs has a frame; a cab; two tracks; a user interface located in the cab; a plurality of sensors configured to acquire signals correlated to the operation of the crawler vehicle, to the weather and/or snow conditions, and to the position of the cra...