US Patent Issued to Caterpillar on Aug. 25 for "Modular thermal management system control" (Illinois Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,719,101, issued on Aug. 25, was assigned to Caterpillar Inc. (Peoria, Ill.).

"Modular thermal management system control" was invented by Bryan Kent Schache (Dunlap, Ill.) and Scott Alan Tipton (Washington, Ill.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A modular and on-demand battery thermal management system (BTMS) for an electric machine with a battery is disclosed. The BTMS may include one or more independently operable BTMS modules, where each BTMS module may be configured to cool a corresponding component of the electric machine, such as a particular battery pack. Each BTMS module, in turn, may include a plurality of BTMS units that cool coola...