US Patent Issued to Wirtgen on Feb. 3 for "Self-propelled civil engineering machine system with field rover" (German Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,540,818, issued on Feb. 3, was assigned to Wirtgen GmbH (Windhagen, Germany).

"Self-propelled civil engineering machine system with field rover" was invented by Matthias Fritz (Linz/Rhein, Germany), Cyrus Barimani (Konigswinter, Germany) and Christian Berning (Zulpich, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A civil engineering machine has a machine control unit configured to determine data which defines the position and/or orientation of a reference point on the civil engineering machine in relation to a reference system independent of the position and orientation of the civil engineering machine. A geometrical shape to be produced on the...