ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,306,628, issued on May 20, was assigned to Caterpillar Inc. (Peoria, Ill.).
"Staggering machine arrival times at worksite loading area" was invented by Justin Peters (Clayton, N.C.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A job at a worksite can be performed by machines that deliver material from a loading area to various drop points at the worksite. A computing system can generate machine instructions that cause machines to arrive at the loading area at staggered arrival times that are separated by at least an arrival time separation threshold. The computing system can also adjust the arrival time separation threshold over time, for instance due ...