MUMBAI, India, Feb. 21 -- Intellectual Property India has published a patent application (202517007575 A) filed by Caterpillar Inc., Peoria, U.S.A., on Jan. 29, for 'subsurface underlying incipient failure indicator in wear components.'

Inventor(s) include Henderson, Russell Ross; Ponnusamy, Ananda Sudhakar; Maoued, Abdul K.; and Goslovich, Kurt Steven.

The application for the patent was published on Feb. 21, under issue no. 08/2025.

According to the abstract released by the Intellectual Property India: "Wear components contain a subsurface underlying incipient failure indicator, machinery parts include at least one wear component containing a subsurface underlying incipient failure indicator, and mechanical systems include at least one ...