ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,704,845, issued on Aug. 11, was assigned to Caterpillar Inc. (Peoria, Ill.).
"Dynamic worksite management system" was invented by Anthony Dean McNealy (Dunlap, Ill.), Russell Aaron Schloss (Pittsburgh), Carsten Thees (Sewickley, Pa.) and Robert Jason McGee (Clayton, N.C.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A node monitoring system, including a plurality of nodes, each of the plurality of nodes registered and connected with a controller to simultaneously receive and return a short poll signal and a long poll signal; and a controller configured to: register an area as an operation zone having a boundary; simultaneously send and receive a short ...