US Patent Issued to Caterpillar Global Mining Equipment on Oct. 20 for "Auxiliary motivation system for work machines" (Texas Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,766,952, issued on Oct. 20, was assigned to Caterpillar Global Mining Equipment LLC (Denison, Texas).

"Auxiliary motivation system for work machines" was invented by Charles Taylor Hudson (Sherman, Texas) and John Francis Halterman (Sherman, Texas).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An auxiliary motivation system for a work machine may be provided where the work machine has a power source for powering a hydraulic system to hydraulically power a hydraulic motor of a drive system of the work machine. The auxiliary motivation system may include an auxiliary motivation device that includes an auxiliary power source and an auxiliary hydraulic syst...