ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 8 -- United States Patent no. 12,729,505, issued on Sept. 8, was assigned to Caterpillar Inc (Peoria, Ill.).

"Determination of a dynamic target plane for an implement of a machine based on filtered dynamic track plane parameters" was invented by Bradley Paul Krone (Dunlap, Ill.), Joseph Leo Faivre (Edelstein, Ill.), Jason Braker (Speer, Ill.) and Kaivalya Vijay Khorgade (Peoria, Ill.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "In some implementations, a controller of a machine may determine plane offset information associated with a reference target plane for an implement of the machine and a reference track plane of the machine. The controller may determine one or more dynamic trac...