ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,601,140, issued on April 14, was assigned to Caterpillar Inc. (Peoria, Ill.).
"Automatically steering a mobile machine" was invented by Randall T. Anderson (Peoria, Ill.) and Bradley P. Krone (Dunlap, Ill.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for steering a mobile machine includes automatically steering the mobile machine in a track steering mode, determining a load condition of the mobile machine, and automatically steering the mobile machine in the track steering mode and a blade steering mode, simultaneously, based on the load condition of the mobile machine."
The patent was filed on March 31, 2022, under Application No. 17/657,3...