US Patent Issued to Caterpillar on April 7 for "Temperature based resistive braking capacity" (Illinois, Texas Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 7 -- United States Patent no. 12,594,834, issued on April 7, was assigned to Caterpillar Inc. (Peoria, Ill.).

"Temperature based resistive braking capacity" 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 a system including a resistor grid comprising a plurality of resistor elements, the resistor grid electrically coupled to a motor of an electric drive machine; a temperature sensor arranged to measure a temperature of at least one of the plurality of resistor elements; a control circuit comprising one or more processors and memory structured to store instructions that, when e...