US Patent Issued to Caterpillar on April 21 for "Method and apparatus for maintaining contact between a slidable current collector and a conductor rail" (Arizona Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,606,055, issued on April 21, was assigned to Caterpillar Inc. (Peoria, Ill.).

"Method and apparatus for maintaining contact between a slidable current collector and a conductor rail" was invented by Luke T. Melchior (Sahuarita, Ariz.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An alignment assist assembly for a work machine includes a camera supported to a lateral side of the work machine and at an elevation above at least one power rail, the camera being oriented toward the haul route and configured to capture an image field and generate an image signal indicative of the image field. A display is operably connected to the camera and disposed in the...