US Patent Issued to Caterpillar on May 19 for "Retention system for retaining deck bushing of drilling machine" (Indian Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,631,075, issued on May 19, was assigned to Caterpillar Inc. (Peoria, Ill.).

"Retention system for retaining deck bushing of drilling machine" was invented by Sudhagar Selvam (Chennai, India), Yagneshwar Natarajan (Chennai, India), Roberto Garcia (Sherman, India) and Pandidurai P (Chennai, India).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A retention system includes a pipe rack rotatable between a first pipe rack position and a second pipe rack position, a retention arm assembly coupled with the pipe rack, and a pipe positioner system. The retention arm assembly is rotatable relative to the pipe rack between a first arm position and a second arm positi...