US Patent Issued to Caterpillar on Nov. 4 for "Subsurface underlying incipient failure indicator in wear components" (Illinois Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,461,023, issued on Nov. 4, was assigned to Caterpillar Inc. (Peoria, Ill.).

"Subsurface underlying incipient failure indicator in wear components" was invented by Russell Ross Henderson Jr. (Havana, Ill.), Ananda Sudhakar Ponnusamy (Naperville, Ill.), Abdul K Maoued (Peoria, Ill.) and Kurt Steven Goslovich (Naperville, Ill.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Manufactures and methods implement wear components containing a subsurface underlying incipient failure indicator, machinery parts including at least one wear component containing a subsurface underlying incipient failure indicator, and mechanical systems including at least one machinery ...