US Patent Issued to Caterpillar on July 28 for "Mine site electrification planning by computer simulation" (Illinois Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,694,350, issued on July 28, was assigned to Caterpillar Inc. (Peoria, Ill.).

"Mine site electrification planning by computer simulation" was invented by Daniel Jude Organ (Peoria, Ill.) and Stefan Jacob Wulf (Washington, Ill.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A mine site electrification planning apparatus includes a model component to simulate mine site operations under a mine site electrification plan. A simulation control component may provide configuration data to the model component that are descriptive of varying distributions of zero greenhouse gas emitting (ZGHG) mining assets for which the mine site electrification plan is simulated...