MUMBAI, India, May 30 -- Intellectual Property India has published a patent application (202311080694 A) filed by Caterpillar Inc., Peoria, U.S.A., on Nov. 28, 2023, for 'system and method for preventing collisions between machines.'
Inventor(s) include Kumar, Venkateshwaran; Gunalan, Gowrisankar; Sekar, Yuvaraja; and Arasamurthy, Dhivya.
The application for the patent was published on May 30, under issue no. 22/2025.
According to the abstract released by the Intellectual Property India: "A system (200) and a method for preventing collisions between a plurality of machines (105-120) at a site (100) is disclosed. The system (200) comprises, in each machine, an output device (225), a radio frequency (RF) unit (205), and a controller (220). The RF unit (205) is configured to transmit a first electronic data up to a preset distance (D1-D4) to define a predefined zone (Z1-Z4) around each machine. The RF unit (205) is also configured to receive a second electronic data transmitted by one or more remaining machines when the remaining machines are at least partially in the predefined zone, or the RF unit (205) is at least partially in the predefined zone of the remaining machines. The controller (220) is configured to detect receipt of the second electronic data and provide an alert on the output device (225) in response to the receipt of the second electronic data. The method comprises the steps performed by each machine of the system (200)."
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