ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 2 -- United States Patent no. 12,486,626, issued on Dec. 2, was assigned to Caterpillar Paving Products Inc. (Brooklyn Park, Minn.).
"Quick change rotor alignment feature" was invented by Craig T. Hedstrom (Mounds View, Minn.), Nicholas B. Johnson (Dayton, Minn.), Ryan Hutar (Plymouth, Minn.), Eric S. Engelmann (Delano, Minn.) and Mario Persano (Poggio Renatico, Italy).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A milling machine can include a frame, a milling assembly including a cutting rotor and a rotor housing coupled to the frame, the cutting rotor including a rotor shell positioned around a spindle, and a first axial alignment feature on one of the rotor shell or the spindle, th...