US Patent Issued to Caterpillar Global Mining Equipment on Aug. 12 for "Lifting assembly for dust curtain of work machine" (American, Indian Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,385,335, issued on Aug. 12, was assigned to Caterpillar Global Mining Equipment LLC (Denison, Texas).

"Lifting assembly for dust curtain of work machine" was invented by Tamilselvan Krishnamoorthy (Chennai, India) and Scott Alan Christianson (Edelstein, Ill.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A lifting assembly for a dust curtain of a work machine includes a pair of mounting brackets. Each mounting bracket is coupled to a frame of the work machine. The lifting assembly also includes an arm assembly pivotally coupled to each mounting bracket and is movable relative to the mounting brackets between a first state in which the dust curtain is di...