ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 8 -- United States Patent no. 12,729,514, issued on Sept. 8, was assigned to Honeywell Aerospace US LLC (Phoenix).

"System and method of bulldozer six-way blade swing angle estimation" was invented by Zhizhen Shen (Shanghai), Xiao Cao (Shanghai) and Yanling Min (Shanghai).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Parameters of a six-way blade coupled to a vehicle are determined based on attitude measurements determined from a plurality of inertial sensors coupled to the vehicle. The vehicle can be a bulldozer. The parameters of the six-way blade can include the swing angle of the blade with respect to an attachment member that couples the blade to the vehicle body, as well as the r...