ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,398,519, issued on Aug. 26, was assigned to Caterpillar Paving Products Inc. (Brooklyn Park, Minn.).
"Controlled stopping for a compactor machine" was invented by Joshua D. Keyes (Saint Michael, Minn.), Matthew Thomas Hanson (St. Louis Park, Minn.), Nathaniel Doy (Maple Grove, Minn.), Nicholas Aaron Greene (Elk River, Minn.) and Paul Russell Friend (Morton, Ill.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A compactor machine may include a frame, a compaction member attached to the frame, and a controller attached to the frame. The controller may be configured to detect, while the compactor machine is traveling on a paving material mat to perform comp...