US Patent Issued to Caterpillar Paving Products on July 8 for "Path of travel slope based control of asphalt compactors" (Minnesota Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,351,990, issued on July 8, was assigned to Caterpillar Paving Products Inc. (Brooklyn Park, Minn.).

"Path of travel slope based control of asphalt compactors" was invented by Cary M Bryant (Plymouth, Minn.), John L. Marsolek (Watertown, Minn.), Nicholas A. Oetken (Brooklyn Park, Minn.) and Matthew D. Chisholm (Maple Grove, Minn.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The asphalt compactor may include a control system communicatively coupled to the one or more sensors including a grade sensor configured to determine a slope of the asphalt surface within the compacting area in at least the direction of travel of the asphalt compactor, the control s...