US Patent Issued to Caterpillar on Aug. 5 for "System and method to reliably detect objects using camera and radar" (Illinois Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,379,487, issued on Aug. 5, was assigned to Caterpillar SARL (Geneva).

"System and method to reliably detect objects using camera and radar" was invented by Jacob C. Maley (Germantown Hills, Ill.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An object detection system may include a first-type sensing device comprising a camera and defining a first field of view and configured to capture an image stream of an area adjacent to a work machine. The system may also include a second-type sensing device different from the first-type sensing device, defining a second field of view substantially overlapping with the first field of view, and configured to capture ...