US Patent Issued to Caterpillar Paving Products on June 2 for "Monitoring compaction energy into a paving material mat" (Minnesota Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 2 -- United States Patent no. 12,644,234, issued on June 2, was assigned to Caterpillar Paving Products Inc. (Brooklyn Park, Minn.).

"Monitoring compaction energy into a paving material mat" was invented by Nicholas A. Oetken (Brooklyn Park, Minn.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A controller may obtain compaction data indicating one or more of a vibration amplitude or a vibration frequency used for a compaction drum of the compactor machine at a plurality of locations of the compactor machine on a paving material mat. The controller may determine, based at least in part on the compaction data, compaction energies produced by the compactor machine at the plurality of locat...