ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,601,154, issued on April 14, was assigned to Caterpillar SARL (Geneva).
"Trench measurement system" was invented by Matthew Beschorner (Plainfield, Ill.), Nathan Bjerke (Peoria, Ill.) and Corey Lee Gorman (Peoria, Ill.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A work machine comprising a trench measurement system for measuring a trench depth and trench angle during a trench digging operation is disclosed. The work machine comprises a range finder system mounted on the boom and includes a plurality of rangefinders, each rangefinder includes a beam device configured to determine a distance of a plurality of rays irradiated from the beam device to a ...