US Patent Issued to Caterpillar on July 28 for "Multiple bus bleed-down" (Illinois Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,695,298, issued on July 28, was assigned to Caterpillar Inc. (Peoria, Ill.).

"Multiple bus bleed-down" was invented by Rodney Lee Menold (Hanna City, Ill.), Jason Lee Miller (Princeville, Ill.) and Matthew Lawrence Hendrickson (Dunlap, Ill.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "In some implementations, a supervisory electronic control unit (ECU) may output, to a first controller, a first control signal commanding the first controller to provide a first voltage to a first bus during a bleed-down operation. The supervisory ECU may output, to a second controller, a second control signal commanding the second controller to provide a second voltage ...