ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 8 -- United States Patent no. 12,435,835, issued on Oct. 7, was assigned to Caterpillar Inc. (Peoria, Ill.).
"Screen assembly" was invented by Thomas J. Gregg (Decatur, Ill.), Sanjeev Kumar (Chennai, India), Bryan Warren Rickards (Peoria, Ill.), Keith A. Kabrick (Harrison, Tenn.), Michael Slovak (Dunap, Ill.), Nirmal Pavangat (Peoria, Ill.) and Naveen Deivasigamani (Chennai, India).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "In some implementations, a screen assembly may include at least one plate member having at least one opening; a screen, that is fluid permeable, disposed on the at least one plate member to expose the screen via the at least one opening; an aperture through the at...