US Patent Issued to Caterpillar on April 14 for "Methods for tracking ground engaging tools between and within image frames" (American, New Zealander Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,601,158, issued on April 14, was assigned to Caterpillar Inc. (Peoria, Ill.).

"Methods for tracking ground engaging tools between and within image frames" was invented by John Paul Atkinson (Pittsburgh), Norman Keith Lay (Baden, Pa.), Shawn Mathew (Savoy, Ill.), Darren Harton (Glenshaw, Pa.), David Robinson (Napier, New Zealand) and Dylan Arrabito (Pittsburgh).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A technique is directed to methods and systems for ground engaging tool (GET) loss detection. A GET monitoring system can receive image data from one or more cameras mounted on a machine. The image data can include image frames that include one or mor...