US Patent Issued to Caterpillar on Nov. 4 for "Automatic sensor identification system and identification method in construction machine" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,460,391, issued on Nov. 4, was assigned to Caterpillar SARL (Geneva).

"Automatic sensor identification system and identification method in construction machine" was invented by Naoyuki Moriya (Akashi, Japan) and Keisuke Shirani (Akashi, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "To reduce the burden of an operator when performing a task for identifying which posture information detection sensor is mounted on which front member in a construction machine where the posture information detection sensors are mounted on multiple front members constituting a working machine. An automatic identification system is provided which has an identification ta...