US Patent Issued to Caterpillar on July 14 for "System and method for machine control using remote operator station" (Indian Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 14 -- United States Patent no. 12,684,094, issued on July 14, was assigned to Caterpillar Inc. (Peoria, Ill.).

"System and method for machine control using remote operator station" was invented by Shyam Sanker D E (Chennai, India) and Aravind Badri (Chennai, India).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for visually monitoring an environment surrounding a mobile machine for facilitating control of the machine from a remote operator station is described. The method includes capturing at least one video feed visually representative of the environment. The at least one video feed is split into multiple feed segments. The method includes determining a gear position of a tran...