ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,584,291, issued on March 24, was assigned to Caterpillar Inc. (Peoria, Ill.).
"Control system for ripper operation" was invented by Bradley P. Krone (Dunlap, Ill.), Christopher M. Gerth (Chillicothe, Ill.) and Brad R. Van De Veer (Washington, Ill.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A mobile machine is operatively attached to a ripper for conducting a ripping operation of the terrain substrate by traveling over the terrain surface. The mobile machine may be associated with sensors to measure the travel resistance from the terrain opposing travel of the mobile machine in the travel directing during the ripping operation. If the travel resista...