US Patent Issued to Caterpillar Paving Products on March 17 for "Compaction-based dynamic automated compaction plan" (Minnesota, Illinois Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,577,749, issued on March 17, was assigned to Caterpillar Paving Products Inc. (Brooklyn Park, Minn.).

"Compaction-based dynamic automated compaction plan" was invented by Nathaniel S. Doy (Maple Grove, Minn.), John L. Marsolek (Watertown, Minn.), Nicholas A. Oetken (Brooklyn Park, Minn.) and Mark A. Tarvin (Canton, Ill.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for controlling a compactor machine can include inputting a compaction specification into a controller for compacting a work area; inputting a compaction target value into the controller; while compacting, evaluating an actual compaction value; and if the actual compaction value re...