US Patent Issued to Caterpillar on Feb. 17 for "System for mitigation of unintentional working machine movement" (Illinois Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,553,211, issued on Feb. 17, was assigned to Caterpillar Inc. (Peoria, Ill.).

"System for mitigation of unintentional working machine movement" was invented by Mo Wei (Dunlap, Ill.) and Benjamin J. Hodel (Dunlap, Ill.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An apparatus can include sensor circuitry to detect a machine movement of a work machine along a surface. The apparatus can also include processing circuitry to receive machine movement information or force-related information and to determine probability that unwanted movement will occur. The processing circuitry can also provide a mitigation control signal to mitigate unwanted movement respon...