US Patent Issued to Caterpillar on Sept. 9 for "Systems and methods for collision avoidance for shape changing machines" (Illinois Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 10 -- United States Patent no. 12,410,586, issued on Sept. 9, was assigned to Caterpillar Inc. (Peoria, Ill.).

"Systems and methods for collision avoidance for shape changing machines" was invented by Mo Wei (Dunlap, Ill.), Jun Zuo (Peoria, Ill.), Jacob C. Maley (Germantown Hills, Ill.) and Manoj Pothugunti (Peoria, Ill.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A collision avoidance system and method for a mobile machine includes determining a boundary zone and providing a notification and/or control command to prevent a collision with another object. A first safety zone associated with a first and second portion of the mobile machine is determined. A second safety zone associate...