US Patent Issued to Caterpillar on May 26 for "Control of a machine to end a windrow" (Illinois Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,637,828, issued on May 26, was assigned to Caterpillar Inc. (Peoria, Ill.).

"Control of a machine to end a windrow" was invented by Michael Charles Gentle (Maroa, Ill.), Ethan Michael Tevis (Bloomington, Ill.) and Joshua T. Hayes (Table Grove, Ill.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A controller for a work machine may cause increasing of an angle of a ground-engaging implement of the work machine while maintaining a distance between a trailing edge of the ground-engaging implement and a center line of the work machine. The controller may detect that the work machine has traveled a particular distance from a location of the work machine at a t...