US Patent Issued to Caterpillar on Feb. 17 for "Battery swapping control system for mobile electric machine" (Australian, American Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,552,257, issued on Feb. 17, was assigned to Caterpillar Inc. (Peoria, Ill.).

"Battery swapping control system for mobile electric machine" was invented by Brodie Lee Thompson (Tasmania, Australia), Jason Prakash Wigg (Ridgley, Australia), Alexander Eli Dowling (Mount Hicks, Australia), Jonathan M. Baumann (Hanna City, Ill.) and Andrew Diecker (Shorewell Park, Australia).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A configuration of emergency stop (E-Stop) and high voltage interface lock (HVIL) circuit hardware and software is described that, alone or in combination, allows mobile electric machines with removable power units to function properly when t...