US Patent Issued to Caterpillar on June 2 for "Track tension monitoring using acceleration and transmission speed sensor inputs" (Illinois Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 2 -- United States Patent no. 12,643,620, issued on June 2, was assigned to Caterpillar Inc. (Peoria, Ill.).

"Track tension monitoring using acceleration and transmission speed sensor inputs" was invented by Daniel Gregory Wear (East Peoria, Ill.), Timothy Gibbs Sidles (Oswego, Ill.), Solimar Reyes-Rodriguez (Edwards, Ill.), Daniel Alejandro Montano (Peoria, Ill.), Mitchell Chase Vlaminck (Germantown Hills, Ill.) and Li Zhang (Dunlap, Ill.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Monitoring track tension of track-enabled work machines using work machine acceleration and transmission speed sensors is provided. When a speed change of a work machine is detected, a timer is started. W...