US Patent Issued to Caterpillar on April 14 for "Derating of remotely controlled work machines based on geocached connectivity information" (Illinois Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,602,065, issued on April 14, was assigned to Caterpillar Inc. (Peoria, Ill.).

"Derating of remotely controlled work machines based on geocached connectivity information" was invented by Aaron R. Shatters (Montgomery, Ill.) and Eric W. Cler (Oswego, Ill.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "When a remotely controlled work machine loses a wireless connection on a work site, operation of the work machine should be terminated for safety purposes. However, if the work machine is moving when the wireless connection is lost, the work machine will continue moving for some time due to inertia. Accordingly, embodiments predict the signal quality of a w...