US Patent Issued to Caterpillar on Dec. 2 for "Remote control of an implement of a machine" (Illinois Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 2 -- United States Patent no. 12,486,642, issued on Dec. 2, was assigned to Caterpillar Inc. (Peoria, Ill.).

"Remote control of an implement of a machine" was invented by Bradley Paul Krone (Dunlap, Ill.) and Matthew E. Bengry (Peoria Heights, Ill.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A controller may identify a reference heading for a mobile machine. The controller may receive, from a remote control device for the mobile machine, a command to actuate an implement of the mobile machine. The controller may cause actuation of the implement based on the command with respect to the reference heading for the mobile machine regardless of an actual heading of the mobile machine."

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