US Patent Issued to Caterpillar on Oct. 28 for "Snow wing assembly having independent rotational controls" (Illinois Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,454,798, issued on Oct. 28, was assigned to Caterpillar Inc. (Peoria, Ill.).

"Snow wing assembly having independent rotational controls" was invented by Benjamin J. Kovalick (Decatur, Ill.), Nathaniel Keith Harshman (Sullivan, Ill.), Bruce Raymond Vahling (Urbana, Ill.) and David Cox (Monticello, Ill.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "In some implementations, a lift assembly for a moldboard of a snow wing assembly of a machine may include a lifting mechanism, coupled to an undercarriage assembly of the machine, configured to lift the moldboard of the snow wing assembly to a bench height associated with the moldboard. The lift assembly may i...