ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,480,285, issued on Nov. 25, was assigned to Caterpillar Inc. (Peoria, Ill.).
"Repose-optimized material stockpiling tool path" was invented by Shaun David Currier (Naperville, Ill.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method and system for controlling a machine to adjust the angle of repose of a material pile by receiving, by one or more processors and from sensors, measurements of geometric characteristics of a material pile; determining an actual angle of repose for the pile; identifying properties of the material; determining, by the one or more processors, a target angle of repose for the material pile according to the one or more materi...