US Patent Issued to Caterpillar on Nov. 3 for "Adapter cover having a bottom open end" (Illinois Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,781,478, issued on Nov. 3, was assigned to Caterpillar Inc. (Peoria, Ill.).

"Adapter cover having a bottom open end" was invented by Eric T. Sinn (Tremont, Ill.), Douglas C. Serrurier (Morton, Ill.) and Rammagy Yoeu (Dunlap, Ill.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An adapter cover includes a front face portion that defines a thru-hole configured to allow a nose portion of an adapter to pass horizontally through the thru-hole past the interior surface and then past the exterior surface, and a top single leg extends horizontally from the front face portion. The thru-hole defines a perimeter with a right side edge, a left side edge, a top edge, ...