US Patent Issued to Caterpillar on Jan. 13 for "Systems and methods for determining poor implement penetration" (Illinois Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 13 -- United States Patent no. 12,523,004, issued on Jan. 13, was assigned to Caterpillar Inc. (Peoria, Ill.).

"Systems and methods for determining poor implement penetration" was invented by Joseph L. Faivre (Edelstein, Ill.), Bradley P. Krone (Dunlap, Ill.) and Sangameshwar Sonth (Dunlap, Ill.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method of identifying blade penetration that is ineffectual by a blade-based machine at a work site, including: attempting to cut an area of ground by the blade-based machine at the work site; determining that the cut is ineffectual based on a determination of a threshold cut volume achieved by the blade-based machine, the threshold cut volume bei...