US Patent Issued to Caterpillar Paving Products on Oct. 27 for "Serviceable milling drum load support" (American, Italian Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 27 -- United States Patent no. 12,774,571, issued on Oct. 27, was assigned to Caterpillar Paving Products Inc. (Brooklyn Park, Minn.).

"Serviceable milling drum load support" was invented by Ryan Hutar (Plymouth, Minn.), Craig T. Hedstrom (Mounds View, Minn.), Nicholas B. Johnson (Dayton, Minn.) and Mario Persano (Poggio Renatico, Italy).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A milling machine can include a frame, a milling assembly coupled to the frame, the milling assembly including a rotor housing and a cutting rotor, the cutting rotor including a rotor shell positioned around a spindle, and a removable support ring positioned on an inner surface of the rotor shell, wherein th...