ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 10 -- United States Patent no. 12,409,869, issued on Sept. 9, was assigned to SKADII GMBH (Telfs, Austria).

"Ski resort management system" was invented by Gunter Tschinkel (Telfs, Austria).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A ski resort management system comprising: a data acquisition system that receives data from telemetry systems of the lift systems, of the snow generators and of the snow groomers of the ski resort; a processing station; mass storage units, containing a system database fed by the data acquisition system; and a display interface, accessible from operator terminals. The data acquisition system stores data and signals from the lift systems, the snow generato...