ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,742,310, issued on Sept. 22, was assigned to Caterpillar Inc. (Peoria, Ill.).
"Implement metering control" was invented by James Joseph Williams (Clayton, N.C.), Jeffrey Michael Pillis (Apex, N.C.), Fuaad Ahmed Sayeed (Dunlap, Ill.) and Gavin David Ripley (Garner, N.C.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A controller for a machine may receive an activation command to activate a metering operation that is to vibrate an implement of the machine by repetitive changing of at least one of an angle or a position of the implement. The controller may generate, while the metering operation is ongoing, a metering control signal for the metering operat...