US Patent Issued to Caterpillar Paving Products on Nov. 25 for "System for determining volume of material being cut" (Minnesota Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,480,264, issued on Nov. 25, was assigned to Caterpillar Paving Products Inc. (Brooklyn Park, Minn.).

"System for determining volume of material being cut" was invented by Conwell K. Rife Jr. (Plymouth, Minn.) and Nathaniel S. Doy (Maple Grove, Minn.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An apparatus of a work machine can include a sensor to provide information regarding a surface worked by a work machine. The apparatus can also include processing circuitry coupled to the sensor. The processing circuitry can generate a cut depth curve that represents cut depth subsequent to performing work on the surface, based on measurements provided by the se...