US Patent Issued to Caterpillar on Aug. 11 for "Method and apparatus for ground fault detection in an electric work vehicle" (British Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,703,247, issued on Aug. 11, was assigned to Caterpillar Inc. (Peoria, Ill.).

"Method and apparatus for ground fault detection in an electric work vehicle" was invented by Robert D. Busby (Whittlesey, Great Britain).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method of performing a ground fault test on a plurality of battery packs of an aggregated battery of an electric work vehicle. A circuit is configured to connect the aggregated battery to an isolation monitor. A plurality of contactors are configured to facilitate connection to the circuit and disconnection from the circuit of each of the plurality of battery packs. If the isolation monitor dete...