US Patent Issued to Caterpillar on Feb. 24 for "Work machine control system for indicating implement position" (North Carolina Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,559,916, issued on Feb. 24, was assigned to Caterpillar Inc. (Peoria, Ill.).

"Work machine control system for indicating implement position" was invented by Justin Philip Pahl (Holly Springs, N.C.) and Joshua David Callaway (Cary, N.C.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for displaying a position of a boom-mounted implement relative to a swing indicator for an excavator having boom swing capabilities comprises displaying a propulsor icon of a set of propulsion units of the excavator on a display screen, displaying a housing icon of a housing of the excavator relative to the propulsor icon on the display screen, displaying a boom icon...