US Patent Issued to Caterpillar on Feb. 17 for "Systems and methods for wear assessment of ground engaging tools" (Pennsylvania, Illinois Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,553,221, issued on Feb. 17, was assigned to Caterpillar Inc. (Peoria, Ill.).

"Systems and methods for wear assessment of ground engaging tools" was invented by Shawn Mathew (Savoy, Ill.), John Paul Atkinson (Pittsburgh), Norman Keith Lay (Baden, Pa.) and Lawrence Mianzo (Pittsburgh).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A technique is directed to methods and systems for assessing wear for a ground engaging tool (GET), such as a tooth on a bucket on a machine. A GET monitoring system can utilize convolutional neural networks for detecting individual instances of GETs in an image. The GET monitoring system can records the initial state of a GET on...