US Patent Issued to Caterpillar on March 18 for "Ground engaging tool wear and loss detection system and method" (Illinois, Pennsylvania Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,252,870, issued on March 18, was assigned to Caterpillar Inc. (Peoria, Ill.).

"Ground engaging tool wear and loss detection system and method" was invented by Peter Joseph Petrany (Dunlap, Ill.) and Shastri Ram (Pittsburgh).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A wear detection system can be configured to receive a video stream including a plurality of images of a bucket of the work machine from a camera associated with the work machine. The bucket has one or more ground engaging tools (GET). The wear detection system can also be configured to identify a plurality of tool images from the video stream over a period of time. The plurality of tool...