US Patent Issued to Caterpillar Paving Products on Sept. 30 for "Plate and enclosure assembly for use in construction equipment" (Indian, American Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,427,901, issued on Sept. 30, was assigned to Caterpillar Paving Products Inc. (Brooklyn Park, Minn.).

"Plate and enclosure assembly for use in construction equipment" was invented by Saravanan Jayapalan (Chennai, India), Joel N. Thieschafer (Maple Grove, Minn.), Harikumar Chellaswamy (Chennai, India) and Siva Subramanian (Chennai, India).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A plate includes: a sensor face; a plate base surface disposed opposite the sensor face in an axial direction; an inner passage connecting the sensor face to the plate base surface; and a blocking surface disposed axially between the sensor face and the plate base surface. ...