US Patent Issued to Caterpillar on July 1 for "System, apparatus, computer program product, and method for determining track pitch distance measurement" (Illinois Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,345,605, issued on July 1, was assigned to Caterpillar Inc. (Peoria, Ill.).

"System, apparatus, computer program product, and method for determining track pitch distance measurement" was invented by David M. Longanbach (Peoria, Ill.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems, apparatuses, computer program products, and methods can determine a distance between a pair of markers removably coupled to a pair of non-adjacent joints on a track assembly of a track-type machine using imaging captured by a camera of a mobile electronic device. The determined distance between a pair of markers can be representative of a track pitch extension, which can...