US Patent Issued to Caterpillar on June 16 for "Detecting a missing asset based on amount of work cycles" (Illinois Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,657,540, issued on June 16, was assigned to Caterpillar Inc. (Peoria, Ill.).

"Detecting a missing asset based on amount of work cycles" was invented by Nicholas Adam Hanauer (Washington, Ill.), Chad Timothy Brickner (Dunlap, Ill.), Manaswini Nama (Peoria, Ill.) and Bradley K. Bomer (Pekin, Ill.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A device may receive, from one or more sensor devices associated with a first machine located at a job site, motion data of the first machine. The device may determine, based on the motion data, an amount of time the first machine spent performing one or more tasks by interacting with a second machine. The device may...