US Patent Issued to Caterpillar on Oct. 7 for "Electro-hydraulic controlled excavator travel to tool control priority function" (Japanese, American Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 8 -- United States Patent no. 12,435,490, issued on Oct. 7, was assigned to Caterpillar SARL (Geneva).

"Electro-hydraulic controlled excavator travel to tool control priority function" was invented by Michael Aron Viergutz (Bloomington, Ill.), Kensuke Tanaka (Kobe, Japan), Atsunori Shimamoto (Akashi, Japan) and Matthew James Beschorner (Plainfield, Ill.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A work machine can include a frame; transportation devices coupled to the frame; a work tool coupled to the frame; a hydraulic system to provide power to operate the transportation devices and the work tool; and a controller configured to operate in a first mode wherein a first hydraulic pum...