ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 29 -- United States Patent no. 12,208,741, issued on Jan. 28, was assigned to Caterpillar Paving Products Inc. (Brooklyn Park, Minn.).
"Augmented machine user interface system" was invented by Matthew-David S. Frantz (Eden Prairie, Minn.), Eric Engelmann (Delano, Minn.), Dario Sansone (Bologna, Italy), Gianfranco Perri (Bologna, Italy) and Elizabeth R. K. Brockman (Charlotte, N.C.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method and system for generating an augmented machine view. The augmented machine view may include a dynamic virtual machine model representing an actual working machine, overlayed with camera footage from around the working machine. The dynamic virtual machine ...