US Patent Issued to Caterpillar Global Mining Equipment on Sept. 8 for "Reversing assist system for a mining truck" (Arizona Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 8 -- United States Patent no. 12,728,796, issued on Sept. 8, was assigned to Caterpillar Global Mining Equipment LLC (Denison, Texas).

"Reversing assist system for a mining truck" was invented by Benjamin Devers Kaufman (Tucson, Ariz.), Camilo Andres Galofre (Oro Valley, Ariz.) and Cameron Thomas Lane (Oro Valley, Ariz.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A reversing assist system for a mining truck is described. The reversing assist system includes an image capturing device to capture a wide angled view of a rearward field of the mining truck including portions of two rear tires and portions of a rear end of a dump body of the mining truck. The reversing assist system inclu...