US Patent Issued to Caterpillar on Aug. 19 for "System, method, and machine for position determination of thumb bucket" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 20 -- United States Patent no. 12,392,113, issued on Aug. 19, was assigned to Caterpillar SARL (Geneva).

"System, method, and machine for position determination of thumb bucket" was invented by Youzou Nakamoto (Akashi, Japan), Keisuke Shirani (Akashi, Japan) and Michio Aoki (Akashi, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A work machine comprises a bucket attached to an end of a stick of the work machine as a work tool, a thumb pivotally coupled to the end of the stick, and processing circuitry. The processing circuitry is configured to determine a current task of the work machine among scooping an object by the bucket or grabbing the object by the bucket and the thumb, bas...