US Patent Issued to Caterpillar on April 14 for "Electric drive system for machine and electric drive control system for same" (Illinois Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,600,340, issued on April 14, was assigned to Caterpillar Inc. (Peoria, Ill.).

"Electric drive system for machine and electric drive control system for same" was invented by Aditya B. Bhandari (Peoria, Ill.), Brian E. Lister (Edwards, Ill.) and Michael D. Beyer (Chillicothe, Ill.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Operating an electric drive machine includes neutralizing a transmission in the electric drive machine operating in a first range, determining suitability of the electric drive machine for operating the transmission in a second range, and calculating a target transmission input speed, based on a speed parameter indicative of a tran...