US Patent Issued to Caterpillar Paving Products on Sept. 8 for "System and method for determining compaction of work surface" (Illinois, Minnesota Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 8 -- United States Patent no. 12,729,492, issued on Sept. 8, was assigned to Caterpillar Paving Products Inc. (Brooklyn Park, Minn.).

"System and method for determining compaction of work surface" was invented by Nicholas Alan Oetken (Brooklyn Park, Minn.) and Allen John DeClerk (Princeton, Ill.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system for determining compaction of a work surface. The system includes a first frame, and a second frame pivotally coupled to the first frame at an articulated joint. The system includes a first traction unit operatively coupled to the first frame and configured to compact the work surface and a second traction unit operatively coupled to the s...