ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 7 -- United States Patent no. 12,598,708, issued on April 7, was assigned to Caterpillar Inc. (Peoria, Ill.).

"Detachable sensor assembly for an elongate conductor" was invented by Yash Bhatia (Peoria, Ill.), Rajesh A (Chennai, India), Zachary W. Newell (Peoria, Ill.) and Ahmad Waqqas (Bijnor, India).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A sensor assembly for an elongate conductor may include a circuit board with a sensor chip, a field component configured to partially surround the elongate conductor transverse to a longitudinal axis of the elongate conductor, and a housing having a first housing portion to connect to a second housing portion by one or more fasteners. The housi...