US Patent Issued to Caterpillar Global Mining Equipment on Jan. 27 for "Removable component of a dump body of a machine" (American, Indian Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,534,009, issued on Jan. 27, was assigned to Caterpillar Global Mining Equipment LLC (Denison, Texas).

"Removable component of a dump body of a machine" was invented by Vaitheeswaran Ponnuchamy (Chennai, India), Daniel Raymond Hettinger (Monticello, Ill.) and Christopher Lynn Wylin (Tucson, Ariz.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A machine may include a dump body that includes a removable component and a base component, wherein: the removable component includes: a first sidewall, a second sidewall, a floor disposed between the first sidewall and the second sidewall, and a welding surface that extends across a surface of the first sidewall, a...