US Patent Issued to Caterpillar on April 14 for "Control feature to optimize battery state of charge by utilizing resistor grid" (Illinois, Texas Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,600,244, issued on April 14, was assigned to Caterpillar Inc. (Peoria, Ill.).

"Control feature to optimize battery state of charge by utilizing resistor grid" was invented by Jacob Dean Randall (Peoria, Ill.) and Dennis Christopher Agee (Newark, Texas).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Provided herein is an electric drive machine including a battery having a state of charge ranging from a depleted state to a full state; a resistor grid electrically coupled to the battery; and a control circuit comprising one or more processors and a memory structured to store instructions that, when executed by the one or more processors, cause the control ...