US Patent Issued to Caterpillar on Sept. 15 for "Machine component tracking system" (Illinois, North Carolina Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,735,874, issued on Sept. 15, was assigned to Caterpillar Inc. (Peoria, Ill.).

"Machine component tracking system" was invented by Arjun Veneshetty (Dunlap, Ill.), Bhargav Chary Biroju (Morrisville, N.C.), Joseph Andrew Willenborg (Dunlap, Ill.), Jim D. Angell (Naperville, Ill.), Donald Froelich (Gilson, Ill.), Abhishek Awana (Dunlap, Ill.) and Sridhar Reddy Chintapally (Dunlap, Ill.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A tracking system may receive a plurality of advertisement messages from a plurality of beacon devices. Each of the plurality of advertisement messages may indicate a respective identifier of a transmitting beacon device of the...