US Patent Issued to Caterpillar on Sept. 30 for "Systems and methods for machine usage visualization" (Illinois, Colorado Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,429,865, issued on Sept. 30, was assigned to Caterpillar Inc. (Peoria, Ill.).

"Systems and methods for machine usage visualization" was invented by Theodore Maestranzi (Peoria, Ill.) and Shane C. McBride (Denver).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for machine usage visualization, the method including: receiving job site location information for a plurality of machines; receiving telematics data for multiple time periods from one or more of the plurality of machines, the data including: machine type, fault codes, and usage information; receiving a machine status for one or more of the plurality of machines; grouping the machines into...