US Patent Issued to Caterpillar on March 4 for "Slider for supporting a track" (Illinois Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,240,542, issued on March 4, was assigned to Caterpillar Inc. (Peoria, Ill.).

"Slider for supporting a track" was invented by Alex Daniel Baldwin (Germantown Hills, Ill.) and Mircea Dumitru (Washington, Ill.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A slider includes a first segment and a second segment. The first segment includes a first upper surface, a first lower surface, and a first interior surface that connects the first upper surface to the first lower surface. The first upper surface is configured to support a track. The first interior surface includes a first component of an attachment mechanism. The second segment includes a second upper ...