US Patent Issued to Caterpillar Global Mining Equipment on March 24 for "Dump body and front wall retrofittable heat transfer system" (American, Indian Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,583,375, issued on March 24, was assigned to Caterpillar Global Mining Equipment LLC (Denison, Texas).

"Dump body and front wall retrofittable heat transfer system" was invented by Vaitheeswaran Ponnuchamy (Chennai, India), Daniel Raymond Hettinger (Monticello, Ill.) and Christopher Lynn Wylin (Tucson, Ariz.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A dump body configured to be retrofitted with a front wall exhaust heating system, the dump body having a first horizontally extending heating conduit on the front face of a front wall; one or more longitudinal body support members extending along a bottom face of a bottom floor and across a transition...