US Patent Issued to Caterpillar Paving Products on Jan. 28 for "Compaction pattern adjustments for automated compaction" (American, Swedish Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 29 -- United States Patent no. 12,210,348, issued on Jan. 28, was assigned to Caterpillar Paving Products Inc. (Brooklyn Park, Minn.).

"Compaction pattern adjustments for automated compaction" was invented by Nathaniel S. Doy (Maple Grove, Minn.), John L. Marsolek (Watertown, Minn.), David Edwin Gerding (Maple Grove, Minn.), Rolf af Klinteberg (Kallekarr, Sweden) and Robert J. McGee (Clayton, N.C.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for controlling a construction machine can include dividing a work area into a plurality of work lanes; selecting a first set of consecutive work lanes of the plurality of work lanes that can be worked without an obstruction; and completi...