US Patent Issued to Caterpillar on Aug. 5 for "Linkage pin monitoring and galling protection" (American, Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,380,741, issued on Aug. 5, was assigned to Caterpillar Inc. (Peoria, Ill.).

"Linkage pin monitoring and galling protection" was invented by Yang-Kyoo Chang (Dunlap, Ill.), Byron D Collis (Chicago), Brian Howson (Bolingbrook, Ill.), Joel P Busker (Plainfield, Ill.), Christopher Arnold Junck (Kobe, Japan), Huapei Wan (Dunlap, Ill.), Jie Lu (Peoria, Ill.) and Brian Naing (Homestead, Fla.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "This disclosure describes, in part, systems and techniques for monitoring linkage joints of machines, such as earth-moving machines, using on-board sensors of the machines to identify linkage joints at risk of galling. The syst...