US Patent Issued to Caterpillar Trimble Control Technologies on Dec. 2 for "Yaw estimation systems and methods for rigid bodies of earthmoving machines connected by a revolute joint" (Illinois Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 2 -- United States Patent no. 12,486,644, issued on Dec. 2, was assigned to Caterpillar Trimble Control Technologies LLC (Dayton, Ohio).

"Yaw estimation systems and methods for rigid bodies of earthmoving machines connected by a revolute joint" was invented by Shawn Cullen (Metamora, Ill.), Eric Dishman (Dunlap, Ill.), Wayne Lamb (Peoria, Ill.), Geoff Mills (Dunlap, Ill.) and Yongliang Zhu (Dunlap, Ill.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Yaw estimation systems and methods for an earthmoving machine and control architecture to receive roll and pitch input from an engine end frame (EEF) inertial motion unite (IMU) and from a non-engine end frame (NEEF) IMU, estimate a yaw arti...