US Patent Issued to Caterpillar Paving Products on Jan. 27 for "Worksite management system and method for a mobile machine" (North Carolina, Minnesota Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,534,884, issued on Jan. 27, was assigned to Caterpillar Paving Products Inc. (Brooklyn Park, Minn.).

"Worksite management system and method for a mobile machine" was invented by Elizabeth R. K. Brockman (Charlotte, N.C.), Nicholas A. Oetken (Brooklyn Park, Minn.) and David E. Gerding (Maple Grove, Minn.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A worksite management system directs one or more mobile machines to enhance the compaction of the terrain surface about a worksite. One or more local topography detectors that may be located on a non-compactor mobile machine measures the state of compaction of the local topography proximate to the mobile mac...