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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Feb. 17, 2026
Filed:
Dec. 22, 2023
Caterpillar Paving Products Inc., Brooklyn Park, MN (US);
Matthew Thomas Hanson, St. Louis Park, MN (US);
Nathaniel Doy, Clayton, NC (US);
John Lee Marsolek, Watertown, MN (US);
Caterpillar Paving Products Inc., Brooklyn Park, MN (US);
Abstract
A system for preventing misuse of an object detection system of a work machine may include an output device and a controller communicatively coupled to the output device. The output device is configured to display a notification indicative of misuse of the object detection system. The controller includes a processing circuit comprising memory communicably coupled to one or more processors. The memory includes instructions thereon that, when executed by the one or more processors, cause the processing circuit to: detect a collision mitigation event of the work machine; classify the collision mitigation event as a misuse event; determine a misuse value associated with a work machine operation based on the misuse event; compare the misuse value with a misuse threshold; and, when the misuse value exceeds the misuse threshold, provide the notification indicative of misuse of the object detection system to the output device.