US Patent Issued to CATERPILLAR on April 14 for "Retention mechanism for ground engaging tools" (Missouri, Illinois Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,601,160, issued on April 14, was assigned to CATERPILLAR INC. (Peoria, Ill.).

"Retention mechanism for ground engaging tools" was invented by Brandon Hammig McCaffrey (St. Louis), Corey Michael Wells (East Peoria, Ill.), William Jay Ulrich IV (East Peoria, Ill.), Thomas M. Congdon (Dunlap, Ill.), Eric Thomas Sinn (Tremont, Ill.) and Douglas Charles Serrurier (Morton, Ill.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A retention mechanism for connecting a tip to an adapter may have a main retainer, a center pin, and a center pin clip attachable to the center pin. The main retainer may have a retainer body, a non-circular thru hole extending along a ce...