US Patent Issued to Caterpillar on April 21 for "Recommending a repair step to perform" (Illinois Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,608,686, issued on April 21, was assigned to Caterpillar Inc. (Peoria, Ill.).

"Recommending a repair step to perform" was invented by Taylor Jensen (Chicago), Fiona J. O'Laughlin (East Peoria, Ill.), Diana E. Huerta (Chicago), Christopher M. Burkard (Dunlap, Ill.), Christopher Ha (Champaign, Ill.), David Jason McIntyre (Peoria, Ill.) and Torsten Van Wassenhove (Edwards, Ill.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The system obtains a first representation of a troubleshooting guide associated with a first issue experienced by a first device. The first representation includes a first plurality of nodes and a first plurality of edges. A node indic...