US Patent Issued to Caterpillar on Aug. 25 for "System, method, and computer program product for determining work implement wear, damage, or change" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,716,211, issued on Aug. 25, was assigned to Caterpillar SARL (Geneva).

"System, method, and computer program product for determining work implement wear, damage, or change" was invented by Christopher Arnold Junck (Hyogo, Japan) and Carl John Moberg (Hyogo, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems, methods, and computer program products can determine wear, damage, change, or other characteristics of a portion of a front linkage of an excavator. The systems, methods, and computer program products can comprise determining, based on signals from at least one sensor of the excavator, that the excavator is in a predetermined state to weig...