US Patent Issued to Caterpillar on Sept. 1 for "Perception-based navigation for mobile machines" (American, Australian Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 1 -- United States Patent no. 12,724,422, issued on Sept. 1, was assigned to Caterpillar Inc. (Peoria, Ill.).

"Perception-based navigation for mobile machines" was invented by Andrew T. Whitten (Dunlap, Ill.), Adam Jacobson (Chermside West, Australia) and Michael D. Braunstein (Washington, Ill.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A map generation application and method generates a computer-readable worksite map for managing navigation and travel for a plurality of mobile machines equipped with perception-based localization and navigation systems at a worksite. Survey data and development data associated with the worksite are obtained and used to prepare an unmarked worksite ...