US Patent Issued to Caterpillar on July 14 for "Detection of trailing cables for surface mining equipment" (Canadian Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 14 -- United States Patent no. 12,681,477, issued on July 14, was assigned to Caterpillar Inc. (Peoria, Ill.).

"Detection of trailing cables for surface mining equipment" was invented by Sandy Pyke (St.-Constant, Canada), Francois Gariepy (St.-Colomban, Canada) and Aurelien Nie-Rouquette (Montreal).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "On industrial sites, especially sites which utilize remotely operated or autonomous mobile equipment, there is a significant risk that the mobile equipment may inadvertently contact trailing or buried cables. Traditional cable detection systems are unable to detect three-phase AC power trailing cables. Disclosed embodiments eliminate or reduce the...