ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,416,123, issued on Sept. 16, was assigned to Wirtgen GmbH (Germany).
"Automated sensor switching" was invented by Rene Muller (VettelschoB, Germany), Manuel Rossa (Aachen, Germany), Matthias Fritz (Hennef, Germany) and Christian Berning (Zulpich, Germany).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A construction machine uses a controller configured to determine a cross-sectional profile of a design surface at a selected position and orientation of a milling drum of the construction machine. The controller automatically determines a preferred sensor sub-set from a plurality of possible sensor sub-sets selected from a set of available sensors. The pre...