US Patent Issued to Caterpillar on Aug. 25 for "Method for real-time hydraulic cylinder drift monitoring" (Illinois Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,716,432, issued on Aug. 25, was assigned to Caterpillar Inc. (Peoria, Ill.).

"Method for real-time hydraulic cylinder drift monitoring" was invented by Richard Andrew Carpenter (Chillicothe, Ill.), Wajahat Afsar (Dunlap, Ill.), Aravind Stalin (Peoria, Ill.) and Vinay Kumar Rao Veeramaneni (Peoria, Ill.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method of monitoring drift in a hydraulic cylinder, including providing a work machine having an implement actuated by the hydraulic cylinder, a sensor attached to the hydraulic cylinder configured to measure a displacement of the hydraulic cylinder and a controller; identifying a cycle start of the hydraul...