US Patent Issued to Caterpillar Paving Products on March 3 for "Work machine control based on biometrics" (North Carolina, Minnesota Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,565,225, issued on March 3, was assigned to Caterpillar Paving Products Inc. (Brooklyn Park, Minn.).

"Work machine control based on biometrics" was invented by John Lee Marsolek (Watertown, Minn.) and Elizabeth R. K. Brockman (Charlotte, N.C.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A controller may obtain, from one or more sensors of an operator control of a work machine, sensor data collected from at least one hand of an operator using the operator control. The controller may determine, based on the sensor data, at least one of a physiological profile of the operator or an amount of time that the operator releases the operator control. The contr...