US Patent Issued to Caterpillar on Aug. 4 for "Vision system for an energy transfer system" (New Zealander Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,700,126, issued on Aug. 4, was assigned to Caterpillar Inc. (Peoria, Ill.).

"Vision system for an energy transfer system" was invented by Mathew Flemmer (Christchurch, New Zealand) and Vaughan Weatherall (Dunedin, New Zealand).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "In some implementations, a system may detect that an energy transfer operation for a work machine is to be initiated. The system may obtain, via a first camera system, first image data associated with the work machine based on detecting that the energy transfer operation is to be initiated. The system may identify, based on the first image data, a first location of a receptacle access p...