US Patent Issued to Trimble on Nov. 11 for "Determination of task area boundaries during driver-assisted construction vehicle operation" (Colorado Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 11 -- United States Patent no. 12,468,307, issued on Nov. 11, was assigned to Trimble Inc. (Westminster, Colo.).

"Determination of task area boundaries during driver-assisted construction vehicle operation" was invented by Adam Clare (Broomfield, Colo.), Megan Marotz (Lafayette, Colo.) and Geoffrey Kirk (Broomfield, Colo.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Construction vehicles using a teach and repeat system can ascertain boundaries of a task area while working, without knowing a perimeter of the task area before starting the task. The system maps a first path of the vehicle by recording a position of a vehicle moving from a first start position to a first end position. A s...