US Patent Issued to Caterpillar on July 14 for "Asset signal monitoring engine for a virtual fleet and asset modeling platform" (Illinois Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 14 -- United States Patent no. 12,682,692, issued on July 14, was assigned to Caterpillar Inc. (Peoria, Ill.).

"Asset signal monitoring engine for a virtual fleet and asset modeling platform" was invented by Dmitry Tyomkin (Buffalo Grove, Ill.), Tamara Fitz (Chicago), Abhilash Reddy Vedavally (Schaumburg, Ill.) and Noel Johny (Chicago).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The disclosed system for testing of fleet management software generates virtual assets (e.g., simulations of machinery) that are associated with simulated sensor values. For at least one particular asset in the set, the system generates simulated application programming interface (API) messages. For at least o...