US Patent Issued to Caterpillar on June 30 for "Non-contact undercarriage wear measurement" (Illinois Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,669,411, issued on June 30, was assigned to Caterpillar Inc. (Peoria, Ill.).

"Non-contact undercarriage wear measurement" was invented by David M Longanbach (Peoria, Ill.), Jacob John Pitman (Peoria, Ill.) and Benoit Abello (Dunlap, Ill.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method, a device, and a system for contactlessly measuring wear of one or more components of an undercarriage assembly of a work machine are disclosed. For example, a method includes identifying a component to be measured for wear by a wear measuring device comprising a first sensor and a second sensor; based on the component, selecting component information associated wi...