US Patent Issued to Caterpillar on Feb. 24 for "Disconnection assembly for tethered electric vehicle" (British Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,558,974, issued on Feb. 24, was assigned to Caterpillar SARL (Geneva).

"Disconnection assembly for tethered electric vehicle" was invented by Maxim Rhys Ruffels (Thurlaston, Great Britain), Richard Strong (Bishops Lydeard, Great Britain) and Simon Conway (Leamington Spa, Great Britain).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An electric vehicle is supplied with power from a power supply via a cable suspended from an anchor. The anchor is attached to a mount on the vehicle and detachable from the mount by tension in the first portion of the cable between the anchor and the power supply. A second portion of the cable between the anchor and the vehic...