ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,697,896, issued on Aug. 4, was assigned to Caterpillar Inc. (Peoria, Ill.).
"Underground mine energy management system" was invented by Alexander Eli Dowling (Mount Hicks, Australia).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An underground mine energy management system includes wireless nodes located at different 3D coordinate positions along travel paths throughout an underground mine, and energy zones are defined between respective pairs of the wireless nodes. A controller is programmed to communicate with a central control office for the mine, a plurality of electric mining vehicles, a plurality of energy storage devices, and a plurality of chargi...