US Patent Issued to Caterpillar on Oct. 20 for "Retrofittable track link for endless crawler tracks of work machines" (Indian Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,767,251, issued on Oct. 20, was assigned to Caterpillar Inc. (Peoria, Ill.).

"Retrofittable track link for endless crawler tracks of work machines" was invented by Santhanam Narayanaswamy (Chennai, India).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A retrofittable track link, for an endless crawler track, includes a body defining a first side, a second side, a leading strap end, a trailing strap end, an intermediate portion extending between the leading and trailing strap ends and defining a linear profile, a first surface at the leading strap end towards the first side, and a second surface at the trailing strap end towards the second side. The first...