US Patent Issued to Caterpillar on Feb. 24 for "Operator confirmation of machine control scheme" (British, Japanese, American, Indian Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,559,907, issued on Feb. 24, was assigned to Caterpillar Inc. (Peoria, Ill.).

"Operator confirmation of machine control scheme" was invented by Rajasurendiran Muthu (Salem, India), Minhal Rashid Rashid (Spalding, Great Britain), Sirui Li (Kobe, Japan) and Shelby Elaine Spivey (Raleigh, N.C.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A customizable control scheme determines operations of a machine or attached implements that result from usage of machine controls by an operator. A display of the machine presents a control scheme confirmation screen in response to the machine turning on, a new implement being attached to the machine, or another trigger ...