US Patent Issued to Caterpillar Paving Products on Jan. 20 for "Asphalt compactor propel direction indication" (Minnesota Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 20 -- United States Patent no. 12,528,408, issued on Jan. 20, was assigned to Caterpillar Paving Products Inc. (Brooklyn Park, Minn.).

"Asphalt compactor propel direction indication" was invented by Nathaniel S. Doy (Maple Grove, Minn.), Timothy J. Lindholm (Blaine, Minn.), Jeremy W. Lee (Otsego, Minn.) and Nicholas A. Oetken (Brooklyn Park, Minn.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A compactor can include a frame; one or more drums coupled to the frame; an operator's seat rotatable relative to the compactor machine; and an indicator to indicate to the operator a direction of propulsion of the compactor machine before the compactor machine begins moving."

The patent was file...