US Patent Issued to Caterpillar on Aug. 18 for "Computer implemented method and system for suppressing false dump events" (Australian, Canadian Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 18 -- United States Patent no. 12,710,753, issued on Aug. 18, was assigned to Caterpillar Inc. (Peoria, Ill.).

"Computer implemented method and system for suppressing false dump events" was invented by Michael Siemer (Brisbane, Australia), Gordon Mountford (Stafford Heights, Australia), Adam Marshall Lewis (Brisbane, Australia), Jan Sobus (Burpengary East, Australia), Connor James Christopher Walker (Brisbane, Australia) and Jeremie Lacasse (Ste-marthe-sur-le-lac, Canada).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A worksite tracking system uses sensor data associated with operations of a machine on a worksite to detect when the machine performs a dump event to dump material at the w...