US Patent Issued to Caterpillar Trimble Control Technologies, Caterpillar on May 5 for "Auto swing control to an alignment for swing boom machines" (Colorado, Illinois, North Carolina Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,618,222, issued on May 5, was assigned to Caterpillar Trimble Control Technologies LLC (Dayton, Ohio) and Caterpillar Inc. (Peoria, Ill.).

"Auto swing control to an alignment for swing boom machines" was invented by Bruce J. Wiewel (East Peoria, Ill.), Joshua Callaway (Cary, N.C.) and Christopher Corwin (Westminster, Colo.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Described herein are systems, methods, and other techniques for performing an alignment operation concurrently with a retraction operation at a construction machine. A guidance line is set for guiding an implement of the construction machine. An input signal is received via a user input dev...