US Patent Issued to Caterpillar on Nov. 3 for "Hauling machine loading using machine perception" (Illinois, Pennsylvania Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,781,469, issued on Nov. 3, was assigned to Caterpillar Inc. (Peoria, Ill.).

"Hauling machine loading using machine perception" was invented by Corey Lee Gorman (Peoria, Ill.), Roberto Martinez (Chicago), Justin Lee Steinlage (Mackinaw, Ill.) and Russell Schloss (Pittsburgh).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A loading system is constructed to load a hauling machine by a loading machine. The system includes a fiducial marker affixed to the hauling machine. A set of sensors of diverse sensory modalities is deployed on the loading machine that generate respective signals indicative of the fiducial marker in the corresponding sensor modalities. A ...