US Patent Issued to Caterpillar on Aug. 11 for "System and method of monitoring and adjusting blade pitch to inhibit blade damage" (Illinois Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,703,960, issued on Aug. 11, was assigned to Caterpillar Inc. (Peoria, Ill.).

"System and method of monitoring and adjusting blade pitch to inhibit blade damage" was invented by Michael C. Gentle (Maroa, Ill.), Ethan M. Tevis (Bloomington, Ill.) and Nathaniel K. Harshman (Sullivan, Ill.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "System and method for inhibiting damage to a moldboard of a mobile work machine including a blade pitch sensor, a camera configured to detect the blade cutting edge, and a controller configured to determine a maximum allowable pitch of the blade based upon current width of the cutting edge determined from a camera signal. The...