ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,442,147, issued on Oct. 14, was assigned to Caterpillar Paving Products Inc. (Brooklyn Park, Minn.).
"Steering control for paving machine" was invented by Mathew James Hedrington (Ham Lake, Minn.) and Jacob Andrew Simmer (Chaska, Minn.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system adjusts an instantaneous turn center for a paving machine having a tow vehicle and a screed assembly towed by the tow vehicle such that no portion of the screed assembly moves backward over freshly laid pavement when the paving machine paves around a curve. The system receives an input from an operator, a sensor, and/or a database. The input includes a distance and a...