ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,553,216, issued on Feb. 17, was assigned to Caterpillar Paving Products Inc. (Brooklyn Park, Minn.).
"Object detect misuse prevention" was invented by Matthew Thomas Hanson (St. Louis Park, Minn.), Nathaniel Doy (Clayton, N.C.) and John Lee Marsolek (Watertown, Minn.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system for preventing misuse of an object detection system of a work machine may include an output device and a controller communicatively coupled to the output device. The output device is configured to display a notification indicative of misuse of the object detection system. The controller includes a processing circuit comprising memory c...