ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,492,518, issued on Dec. 9, was assigned to Caterpillar Paving Products Inc. (Brooklyn Park, Minn.) and Holt Texas Ltd. (San Antonio).

"Adjusting a setting of a screed assembly based on temperature data of the screed assembly" was invented by Brian D. Nagel (Ramsey, Minn.), Brett Wayne Engel (Otsego, Minn.) and John Richard Guzman (Lucas, Texas).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "In some implementations, a controller may receive a command to adjust a setting of the screed assembly. The controller may obtain temperature data from one or more sensor devices of the screed assembly. The controller may determine, based on the temperature data, a cor...