US Patent Issued to Caterpillar Global Mining Equipment on July 28 for "System for determining health of drill string components of drilling machines" (American, Indian Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,692,756, issued on July 28, was assigned to Caterpillar Global Mining Equipment LLC (Denison, Texas).

"System for determining health of drill string components of drilling machines" was invented by Yagneshwar Natarajan (Chennai, India), Charles Taylor Hudson (Sherman, Texas), Roberto Garcia (Sherman, Texas) and Rex Glover (Deer Creek, Ill.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system for determining health of a drill string component of a drilling machine is disclosed. The system comprises a controller configured to receive, from a sensing device, a signal indicative of a duty cycle of an actuator corresponding to an engaged position of a dec...