US Patent Issued to Caterpillar Paving Products on Nov. 4 for "System and method for operating indicator lights of work machines" (Illinois, Minnesota Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,464,622, issued on Nov. 4, was assigned to Caterpillar Paving Products Inc. (Brooklyn Park, Minn.).

"System and method for operating indicator lights of work machines" was invented by Nathaniel Doy (Maple Grove, Minn.) and Micheal David Valerio (Morton, Ill.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method, for operating an indicator light mounted to an exterior of a work machine, includes receiving, by a controller, a digital input image of an environment surrounding the work machine from an image capturing device. Also, the method includes processing, by the controller, the digital input image to determine an ambient light intensity of the envir...