US Patent Issued to Caterpillar on June 2 for "Pullback shroud retention system for a work tool" (Illinois Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 2 -- United States Patent no. 12,644,260, issued on June 2, was assigned to Caterpillar Inc. (Peoria, Ill.).

"Pullback shroud retention system for a work tool" was invented by Eric Thomas Sinn (Tremont, Ill.), Douglas Charles Serrurier (Morton, Ill.), Corey Michael Wells (East Peoria, Ill.), Kevin Spahn (Washington, Ill.) and Jerome Alexander Sendon (Peoria, Ill.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A shroud retention system has a boss attached to a work tool and a retention block attached to the boss. The shroud retention system has a plunger block connected to and slidably movable relative to the retention block. The boss, the retention block, and the plunger block are slida...