US Patent Issued to Wirtgen on Feb. 3 for "Plausibility check" (German Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,542,014, issued on Feb. 3, was assigned to Wirtgen GmbH (Windhagen, Germany).

"Plausibility check" was invented by Matthias Fritz (Hennef, Germany), Rene Muller (VettelschoB, Germany) and Manuel Rossa (Aachen, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system is provided for determining the plausibility that a current ground surface on which a construction machine is located conforms to a prior survey of that ground surface. A controller is provided with a digital model defined within a reference system external to the construction machine. The controller determines a current relative orientation and an expected relative orientation, of at ...