US Patent Issued to Caterpillar Paving Products on Aug. 25 for "System and method for improving visibility around compactor" (American, Spanish Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,716,206, issued on Aug. 25, was assigned to Caterpillar Paving Products Inc. (Brooklyn Park, Minn.).

"System and method for improving visibility around compactor" was invented by Robert Kenneth Iverson (Maple Grove, Minn.) and Francisco Romero Ruiz (Madrid).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system for improving visibility around a compactor includes imaging devices to generate an input image that includes a surrounding area of the compactor and one or more components of the compactor. The system also includes a controller to receive, from the imaging devices, one or more input images, analyze the input images to determine a position of the...