ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 31 -- United States Patent no. 12,511,911, issued on Dec. 30, was assigned to Caterpillar Inc. (Peoria, Ill.).
"System and method for detecting spillage from machines" was invented by Jonathan Edmund Rafferty (Pascoe Vale, Australia), Jyoti Prakash Mishra (Brunswick West, Australia) and Aaron Francis Westbury (Wynyard, Australia).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Spillage of material from one or more machines is managed by a worksite management system. A machine includes a camera and a ranging apparatus (such as a light detection and ranging device) to detect material coming from a machine indicating a spill. In some examples, the machine further has one or more inertial mea...