US Patent Issued to Caterpillar on Sept. 23 for "Estimating hydraulic flow in a steering system of an articulated vehicle" (British Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 23 -- United States Patent no. 12,420,867, issued on Sept. 23, was assigned to Caterpillar SARL (Geneva).

"Estimating hydraulic flow in a steering system of an articulated vehicle" was invented by Craig Cox (Sheffield, Great Britain), Niall McNamee (Guildford, Great Britain), Arick Bakken (Broughton Astley, Great Britain) and Paul Cairns (Leicester, Great Britain).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method of estimating hydraulic flow in a steering system of an articulated vehicle, a controller configured for the method and an articulated vehicle are provided. The method comprises: a) sensing a yaw rate of the articulated vehicle; b) sensing a velocity of the articulated ve...