US Patent Issued to Caterpillar Paving Products on Sept. 8 for "Variable control of liquid dispersal system for compactor machine" (Minnesota Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 8 -- United States Patent no. 12,729,491, issued on Sept. 8, was assigned to Caterpillar Paving Products Inc. (Brooklyn Park, Minn.).

"Variable control of liquid dispersal system for compactor machine" was invented by Jeremy Wayne Lee (Otsego, Minn.), Matthew Thomas Hanson (St. Louis Park, Minn.), Cary M. Bryant (Plymouth, Minn.), Bryan J. Downing (Champlin, Minn.) and Todd Mansell (Rogers, Minn.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "In some implementations, a liquid dispersal system of a compactor machine may obtain configuration information that indicates a quantity of rotations of a compaction element of the compactor machine in association with a dispersal cycle and that i...